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Leathersville, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the South Lincoln census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30817. The Survey maps it on the Woodlawn quadrangle.

Leathersville within Lincoln County

On record in Leathersville

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Leathersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 470 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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 burning77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
17 September 2001Arson/incendiarism6.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-LINCOLN-004
12 September 2001Arson/incendiarism5.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-LINCOLN-003
11 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LINCOLN002
8 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use19 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Leathersville: 6 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Colley MineManganesePast Producer1943
Colley MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
Colley MineManganesePast Producer1918
DillGoldPast ProducerVein
Goldman Mn MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
Julia Or Phelps MineGoldProspectVein
PaschalGoldProspectVein
Ramsey PropertyGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leathersville in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2020Flash FloodLeathersville$5,000Lincoln Co dispatch reported Amity-Woodlawn Rd washed out near State Road 220. Exact location and times estimated.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindLeathersville$3,000Lincolnton police reported trees down on powerlines on Salem Church Road.
April 2022Flash FloodLeathersville$10Several roads flooded and closed including Salem Church Rd. Exact locations unknown. | Time estimated.
June 2010HailLeathersville-Sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail in the Leathersville area.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Woodlawn0.9 miles19
Loce2.0 miles19
Agnes (historical)2.1 miles19
Salem (historical)2.2 miles19
White Rock (historical)2.7 miles16
New Hope3.4 miles19
Clay Hill3.6 miles19
Amity3.9 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122553433The 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 326363. 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.