BlockHowards Mill, Georgia
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jakin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39861. It stands on Howards Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lucile quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Lucile quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
211 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Howards Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 928 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 17 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 | 104 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 57 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-MILLER-003 |
| 30 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019EARLY004 |
| 24 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-EARLY-015 |
| 2 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Howards Mill in 1 storm report in 2015: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Howards Mill | - | A tree was blown down onto Spooner Quarter Road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield (historical) | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Cedar Springs | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Killarney | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Saffold | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Jones Crossroads | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Liberty | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Jakin | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Lucile | 7.3 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326332. 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.