Jamestown, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mansfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30014. It stands on Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle.

Jamestown within Newton County

On record in Jamestown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Starrsville Historic Districtlisted 1998 · 0.5 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Jamestown between 1992 and 2018, burning about 565 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 34 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	114
Arson/incendiarism	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	13
Smoking	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-NEWTON-003
26 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-NEWTON-001
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jamestown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
	No Name	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jamestown in 2 storm reports in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Jamestown	$200,000	An amateur radio operator reported multiple trees blown down along Highway 213 from around Dixie Road into the city of Mansfield. Severe damage occurred at a tractor equipment company, a car lot and the City Hall in Mansfield.
June 2017	Heavy Rain	Jamestown	-	The USGS precipitation gage located at the Alcovy River at High Point, reported 6.85 inches of rain for the 24-hour period ending at 9:30 PM EST.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Starrsville	0.8 miles	17
Newton Chase	1.3 miles	17
High Point	1.8 miles	17
Anderson Acres	1.8 miles	17
Highpoint Forest	2.0 miles	17
Lassiter	2.3 miles	17
Avalon	2.5 miles	12
Cedar Creek	2.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673509. 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.