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Little Creek, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tallapoosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30113. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Benedict quadrangle.

Little Creek within Haralson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

740 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 740 fires within 5 miles of Little Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,142 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 514 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
Arson/incendiarism514
Debris and open burning164
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony13
Natural12
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-POLK-007
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism7.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020POLK003
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-POLK-006
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-POLK-025

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haralson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Little Creek: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Esom Hill AreaIronPast ProducerResidual
Shiloh Church PropertyIronPast Producer
T J Woodard MineIronPast Producer
Wray MineIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Haralson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Creek in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
March 2012Tornado (EF3)Little Creek1 hurt, $750,000An EF-1 tornado touched down at approximately 8:09 PM in Haralson County near Cross Roads Church Road and Tallapoosa Highway, uprooting and snapping trees for several miles. The tornado strengthened to an EF-3 along Bethlehem Church Road where a house collapsed and a repair shop was destroyed. One person was injured when the house collapsed into the basement, where he was taking shelter. At that residence, two dogs were killed. A cow died in a nearby field. The tornado continued across Haralson County, crossing Highway 27 where dozens of trees where snapped and uprooted. As the tornado continued east, minor damage was sustained to a church where a steeple was blown off. Hundreds of trees were down in forested areas in the eastern portions of Haralson County. The tornado continued into Paulding County where it lifted near McClure Trail and McClure Drive around 8:50 PM.||[03/02/12: Tornado #1, County #1-2, EF3, Haralson, 2012:005].
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLittle Creek$10,000The Haralson County 911 center reported at least a dozen trees blown down across the northern end of the county, including along Bethlehem Church Road near the Bethlehem Baptist Church.
December 2009FloodLittle Creek$2,000The Haralson County Emergency Management Director reported flooding from local creeks in the county. Beech Creek was flooding portions of Old Ridgeway Road, five miles northwest of Bremen, and Brooks Creek was flooding portions of Frances-White Road, seven miles northeast of Buchanan. Monetary damage was confined to minor debris removal adjacent to the creeks.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindLittle Creek$1,000The emergency manager relayed a report of a tree down near tallapoosa highway, north of steadman road.

Every storm recorded in Haralson 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
Dugdown3.1 miles14
Steadman4.3 miles14
Felton4.7 miles16
Poplar Springs5.3 miles14
Abernathys Mill5.6 miles16
Latham (historical)7.8 miles16
Buchanan8.8 miles16
Tabernacle8.9 miles16

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 Little CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65082056The 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 350645. 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.