Little River, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Washington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30673. It stands on Beaverdam Creek. The Survey maps it on the Washington West quadrangle.

Little River within Wilkes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1906 USGS Crawfordville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Washington West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Little River between 1992 and 2020, burning about 634 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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	69
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
9 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WILKES-003
9 September 2013	Debris and open burning	5.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-WILKES-001
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WILKES004
30 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-TALIAFERRO-003
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	7.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WILKES-003
27 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WILKES-004
22 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes 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 River: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Kyanite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Little River Mill C-E Minerals	Kyanite	Producer
Hillman	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer
Stone Ridge Mine (Orr)	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Stoney Ridge Gold Mine	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wilkes County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little River in 2 storm reports in 2009: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2009	Flood	Little River	$1,000	The USGS stream gage on the Little River south of Washington on the Wilkes/Taliaferro county line briefly reached and exceeded its flood stage of 19.0 feet on April 3rd. The river reached its flood stage of 825 am EDT on April 3rd, crested at 830 am EDT, and then dropped below flood stage at 835 am EDT. Minor flooding was observed along the woodlands and fields near the river. Damage was confined to minor debris removal.
March 2009	Flood	Little River	$1,000	The river gage on the Little River west of Washington exceeded the flood stage of 22 feet at 1246 pm EDT on March 29, 2009. The river remained above the flood stage through 815 am EDT on March 30, 2009. The river crested at 22.6 feet on March 29, 2009 at 1015 am EDT. Damage was confined to minor debris clean up.

Every storm recorded in Wilkes 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
Ficklin	1.6 miles	13
Lundberg	2.2 miles	13
Porters	5.0 miles	13
Tyrone	5.1 miles	13
Lincoln Heights	5.2 miles	13
Logan	5.6 miles	13
Anne Heights	5.6 miles	13
Washington Heights	5.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332244. 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.