Holley, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Casey Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30705. It stands on Rock Branch. The Survey maps it on the Calhoun NE quadrangle.

Holley within Murray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1886 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1949 USGS Calhoun quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Calhoun quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Calhoun NE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

377 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 377 fires within 5 miles of Holley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,010 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 82 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 burning	228
Arson/incendiarism	82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Recreation and ceremony	9
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2006	Debris and open burning	9.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MURRAY-012
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MURRAY-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holley in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Holley	$3,000	The Daily Citizen of Dalton reported that many trees were down across both the northern and southern portions of the county.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Holley	$2,000	The Murray County 911 center reported trees blown down near the intersection of Highway 225 and Henry Gallman Road and on Mashburn Road.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Holley	$1,000	Large tree down blocking roadway at hwy 255 s and couch rd.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Holley	$1,000	Tree down on roadway at Oak Hills St and Eastern Pass.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Holley	$1,000	The Murray County 911 center reported a tree blown down along Davenport Road.
September 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Holley	$1,000	The Murray County 911 Center reported that two trees were blown down in the southern part of the county and two more trees were blown down in the northern part of the county. Doppler base velocity data showed that the strongest winds were just west of Fort Mountain State Park.
April 2009	Hail	Holley	-	The Murray County Emergency Management Director relayed a report of penny-sized hail. While the exact location was not provided, radar data suggests that this occurred in the far southern portion of the county near Carters Lake.
April 2006	Hail	Holley	-	The public reported penny-sized hail south of Holley near the Gordon county line along Georgia Highway 225.

Every storm recorded in Murray 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ball Ground	3.7 miles	19
Wells (historical)	4.2 miles	19
Ramhurst	5.7 miles	19
Spring Place	6.5 miles	21
Coniston	6.6 miles	19
Dennis	6.9 miles	19
Chatsworth	7.7 miles	21
Bloodtown	7.9 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1705480. 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.