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Holly Hills, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Dublin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31021. It stands on Strawberry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dublin quadrangle.

Holly Hills within Laurens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

717 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 717 fires within 5 miles of Holly Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,000 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 112 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 burning326
Arson/incendiarism112
Equipment and vehicle use69
Misuse of fire by a minor49
Railroad operations and maintenance49
Smoking36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony23
Natural21

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 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-LAURENS-037
9 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-LAURENS-035
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-LAURENS-028
6 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-LAURENS-027
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burning2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LAURENS011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurens County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Holly Hills: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Brown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
East DublinSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Holmes MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Laurens County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holly Hills in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 5 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindHolly Hills$2,000Large tree down at the intersection of Country Club Road and Parker Dairy Road.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindHolly Hills$1,500The Laurens County Emergency Manager reported that several trees were blown down along Buckeye Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHolly Hills$1,000Tree down along Briarcliff Road and Greenway Dr.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHolly Hills$1,000Tree down along Blackshear Ferry Road and Marie Church Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHolly Hills-Emergency manager reported powerlines down on the 300 block of Parker Dairy Rd.

Every storm recorded in Laurens 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
Dublin3.4 miles8
East Dublin4.5 miles8
Moores4.7 miles8
Spring Hill5.4 miles8
Harlow6.0 miles8
Condor6.3 miles8
Shewmake6.4 miles8
Old Condor6.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346558. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.