Hurricane Shoals, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Maysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30558. It stands on Stockton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Apple Valley quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hurricane Shoals within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

1891 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Apple Valley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Hurricane Shoals (historical) between 1992 and 2017, burning about 211 acres in total. 1 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	41
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	7.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JACKSON-005
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JACKSON-004
5 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-JACKSON-001
21 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	18 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Dry Pond	2.1 miles	13
Apple Valley	4.1 miles	13
Grove Level	4.2 miles	14
Commerce	4.7 miles	14
Thyatira	4.9 miles	13
Holly Springs	5.2 miles	12
Constantine	6.2 miles	12
Jefferson	6.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 349473. 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.