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Hunts Corner, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Redbud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30701. The Survey maps it on the Redbud quadrangle.

Hunts Corner within Gordon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

297 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Hunts Corner between 1992 and 2019, burning about 732 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 76 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 burning155
Arson/incendiarism76
Equipment and vehicle use25
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2

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
8 September 1993Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020GORDON007
23 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020GORDON006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunts Corner in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHunts Corner$3,000Emergency Manager reported trees down due to strong winds at Love Bridge Rd and Baxter Rd SE.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHunts Corner$2,000The Gordon County 911 Center reported several trees and power lines down on the eastern side of the county.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindHunts Corner$1,000The Gordon County 911 center reported a tree blown down near the intersection of Pine Chapel Road and Red Bud Road.
June 2018LightningHunts Corner$1,000The Gordon County Emergency Manager reported a house struck by lightning in the 500 block of Buck Boulevard.
September 2017Flash FloodHunts Corner-Numerous roads became flooded the evening of September 11th, 2017. The roadways remained closed overnight and through much of the day on September 12th, 2017. 12 roads were closed across Gordon County.

Every storm recorded in Gordon 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
Crane Eater1.5 miles18
Redbud1.6 miles18
Lewis Corner2.1 miles18
Audubon2.9 miles18
Cash3.1 miles19
New Town3.2 miles19
Decora3.5 miles18
Big Spring (historical)3.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326335. 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.