Huntington, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leslie-De Soto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31709. The Survey maps it on the Americus quadrangle.

Huntington within Sumter 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Americus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

262 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Huntington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 906 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 10 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	161
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2010	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SUMTER-011
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020SUMTER013
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntington in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 1 tornado, 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
April 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Huntington	$50,000	A NWS survey team found that a brief EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of 105 MPH and a path width of 100 yards touched down in southern Sumter County. The tornado destroyed 4 large grain silos, throwing debris over a quarter of a mile away into an adjacent field. A nearby metal building had 2 doors blown out, however the farm equipment inside was not damaged. The tornado snapped or uprooted 30-40 trees including some in a large pecan orchard. [04/19/15: Tornado #2, County #1-1, EF1, Sumter, 2015:006].
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$10,000	Sumter County EMA reported a tree down across the road near the intersection of Hwy 280 and Brickyard Road.

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Parkers (historical)	2.3 miles	9
Gatewood	2.3 miles	8
Lamar	3.8 miles	8
Leslie	4.3 miles	9
DeSoto	5.3 miles	9
Maddox	5.4 miles	10
Sumter Homes	6.0 miles	8
Americus	6.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332044. 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.