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Linchburg, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eatonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31024. It stands on Glady Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eatonton quadrangle.

Linchburg within Putnam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Linchburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 728 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 23 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 burning88
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking8
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PUTNAM-006
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PUTNAM-001
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PUTNAM-003
6 September 2010Debris and open burning5.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PUTNAM-002
5 September 1999Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linchburg in 1 storm report in 2024: 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 2024Thunderstorm WindLinchburg$5,000Multiple trees as well as power lines were reported down in the area of Glenwood Springs Road at Halls Road.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Willard1.7 miles11
Hunts3.1 miles11
Note3.3 miles11
Imperial3.3 miles11
Eatonton3.6 miles11
Glenwoods Spring (historical)3.7 miles11
Warfield3.8 miles11
Huron (historical)4.3 miles11

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 Q122559816The 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 347225. 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.