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Hooker, Georgia

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Trenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30757. It lies near Paris Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hooker quadrangle.

Hooker within Dade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

449 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 449 fires within 5 miles of Hooker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,625 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 171 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
Arson/incendiarism171
Debris and open burning155
Railroad operations and maintenance43
Equipment and vehicle use26
Recreation and ceremony21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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 2016Debris and open burning4.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-DADE-009
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-DADE-003
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-DADE-011
27 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DADE007
25 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance5.2 acresTennessee Division of ForestryCSX WATER TANK RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Hooker: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Aluminum. 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
Frank Gillum ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
Tiftonia Plant Pit No. 395Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Unnamed ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Dave L Brown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tiftonia Plant & Quarry Pit #395Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
D. Martin's MineIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
UnnamedIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
UnnamedIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Unnamed, Lot 115, 10th DistrictIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant

Every working recorded in Dade County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooker in 5 storm reports between 2011 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
February 2011Thunderstorm WindHooker$150,000The Dade County Emergency Management Director reported widespread tree and power line damage across the northern part of the county from two separate storm cells within a line of storms. The first area of damage was concentrated in the Hooker and Wildwood area in the far northern part of the county near the Tennessee border. Two homes in the Pinecrest Subdivision along Georgia Highway 299 sustained damage when trees fell on the structures. At least five power lines were also down in this part of the county. The second area of damage was in the Trenton area where widespread downed trees were observed. A few power lines were also down in this area as well. Overall, hundreds of trees were down across the northern half of the county.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindHooker$2,000Amateur Radio operators relayed reports of several downed trees closing Interstate 24 in Dade County.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHooker$1,000A tree was downed on Hooker Cemetery Road near 299.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindHooker$1,000The Dade County 911 Center reported that three trees were down in the Wallwood area in the north part of the county.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHooker-Powerlines down on i-59 n near i-24.

Every storm recorded in Dade 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
Wildwood1.6 miles26
Morganville3.1 miles26
West Brow4.0 miles26
New England5.3 miles26
Cole City7.4 miles25
Trenton8.4 miles23
Avans8.7 miles25
Gass10.0 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332019. 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.