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Lakemont, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tiger census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30552. It stands on Tiger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tiger quadrangle. It stands 1,611 feet above sea level.

Lakemont within Rabun County

On record in Lakemont

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Lakemont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,360 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 20 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 burning66
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestSAWMILL
24 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-RABUN-001
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestCOMMUNITY LANE
23 September 1999Natural3.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestY CAMP
5 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestGASTON
30 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HABERSHAM-001
2 August 2012Naturalunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestSAGA MTN
24 July 2008Natural92 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestKING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rabun County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakemont in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
October 2021FloodLakemont$1,000Emergency management reported flooding developed along Tiger Creek after 3 to 5 inches of rain fell across southern Rabun County in around 24 hours, with about half of that falling between midnight and sunrise on the 7th. A few roads were inundated and closed, including Old Highway 441, Shady Ln, and Brandon Mill Rd.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLakemont-County comms reported a tree blown down along Seed Lake and another tree down near Lake Burton.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLakemont-County comms reported trees were blown down on power lines and blocking the road on Lake Rabun Rd. Another tree was down on Brandon Mill Rd.
June 2022HailLakemont-Emergency manager reported quarter size hail in the Lakemont area.
April 2020HailLakemont-Spotter reported quarter size hail.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLakemont-County comms reported trees blown down along Highway 15 near Tallulah Gorge.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindLakemont-Spotter reported numerous trees blown down and blocking the road on Long Laurel Ridge Dr.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLakemont-County comms reported multiple trees and power lines blown down on Connector Rd.
April 2012HailLakemont-Quarter size hail was reported by the Tallulah Falls post office, which is on the Rabun County side of the line.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLakemont-Trees and power lines were blown down between Lakemont and Tallulah Falls.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLakemont-Several trees and power lines blown down.
April 2003HailLakemont-Hail was reported near Tallulah Falls.
August 2007HailLakemont-no account filed
July 2007HailLakemont-no account filed
July 2007HailLakemont-no account filed
April 2006HailLakemont-no account filed
April 2005HailLakemont-no account filed
May 1996HailLakemont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rabun 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
Wiley1.1 miles19
Burton Junction (historical)1.6 miles19
Tiger4.6 miles19
Laurel Falls5.4 miles19
Burton (historical)6.1 miles18
Clayton6.7 miles24
Germany8.3 miles24
Blalock9.2 miles23

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on LakemontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986722The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356348. 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.