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Hinsonton, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sale City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31765. The Survey maps it on the Cotton quadrangle. It stands 338 feet above sea level.

Hinsonton within Mitchell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

164 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Hinsonton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 583 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 19 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning108
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarism7.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MITCHELL011
26 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mitchell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hinsonton in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHinsonton-Trees were blown down along Hinsonton Road.

Every storm recorded in Mitchell County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Laney2.0 miles8
Cotton2.4 miles8
Saco (historical)2.9 miles8
Akridge (historical)3.2 miles8
Rogerville4.6 miles8
Pebble City5.4 miles8
Sale City5.9 miles10
Petty (historical)7.4 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on HinsontonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5767494The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331994. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.