Huntington, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the LaGrange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30240. The Survey maps it on the Abbottsford quadrangle.

Huntington within Troup County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Abbottsford quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Huntington between 1992 and 2019, burning about 528 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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	77
Railroad operations and maintenance	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Smoking	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	4

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
4 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-TROUP-006
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TROUP001
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TROUP-004
13 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Troup County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Huntington: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Beryllium, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Davis Prospect	Mica	Occurrence
	Word Prospect	Beryllium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Troup County

Storms near this place

20 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntington in 20 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2018	Hail	Huntington	$450,000	The Troup County 911 center reported golf ball size hail near the intersection of Whitaker Road and Brookwood Drive.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$25,000	Emergency manager reported that a tree fell through a home, doing substantial damage along the 100 block of Colonial Ct in LaGrange.
February 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$25,000	The Troup County Emergency Manager reported around a dozen trees blown down in the 200 block of Woodfield Circle. One tree fell onto a house, no injuries were reported.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$15,000	Multiple trees down across roadways just east of Abbottsford.
July 2009	Lightning	Huntington	$10,000	The Troup County 911 Center reported that lightning struck and set a storage building on fire. The building was located on Teaver Street in the southwest part of La Grange. While significant damage occurred to the structure, it was not totally destroyed.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$5,000	Em reports multiple trees down in the west wyngate area from old west point rd to ga29 to west lake village.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$5,000	Emergency manager reported a tree down on a home near the intersection of Ginger Cir and Debra Dr.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$4,000	The Troup County 911 center reported trees and power lines blown down from around 100 block of Heatherbrook Drive to around the 2900 block of Roanoke Road. .
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$3,000	Several trees snapped near residence off Ginger Circle as well as Connie Dr.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$3,000	Multiple reports of trees down along West Point Rd between Bradfield Dr and Hudson Rd.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$2,000	AT least two trees were downed along ga 109 about 3.5 miles west of lagrange.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$1,000	Emergency manager reported a tree down near Vernon Ferry Rd and Bailey Rd.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$1,000	A tree was downed in the 800 block of Teaver Road.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	$1,000	Em reported tree down at Colonial Ct near Plymouth Dr.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	-	Nearly a dozen reports of downed trees and powerlines west and north of LaGrange, along Hwy 29 and Roanoke Road. Reports include a tree down on a house along West Point Road and a tree on a vehicle on 4th Ave. No reports of injuries.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	-	Tree down on power line at Newton Rd and River Point Drive.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	-	Report of three trees down at Pyne Rd and Savannah Place.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington	-	Report of a tree on house causing major damage near the intersection of West Point Rd and Teaver Rd.
July 2018	Hail	Huntington	-	The public reported quarter size hail.
April 2017	Hail	Huntington	-	The public reported quarter size hail in the Pyne Road area.

Every storm recorded in Troup 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
West Lake Village	0.4 miles	14
Heatherbrook	0.6 miles	14
West Wyngate	0.7 miles	12
Shady Oaks	0.8 miles	14
Pyne	0.8 miles	14
Teaver Hill	0.9 miles	12
Vernon Ferry Estates	1.0 miles	14
River Trace	1.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673099. 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.