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Livingston, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cave Spring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30161. It stands on Mill Race. The Survey maps it on the Livingston quadrangle.

Livingston within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Livingston between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,509 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 66 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 burning92
Arson/incendiarism66
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2

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
6 September 2007Arson/incendiarism13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Arson/incendiarism5.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-FLOYD-029
19 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Livingston: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
Neill Georgia PitClayProducer
Oreburg PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Livingston in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 3 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLivingston$15,000The Floyd County Emergency Manager and the 911 center reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across the county from the Cave Spring area northeast across Rome to near Shannon. Location include Ward Mountain Road at Barron Road, Maple Road at Teat Street, Padlock Mountain Road at Rehab Drive, Cunningham Road, Friday Road, Lakewood Road, and East 2nd Street.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLivingston$8,000Multiple trees and powerlines down along Foster Mill Road and Morton Bend Road, south of Coosa.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLivingston$4,000The Floyd County 911 Center reported a few trees blown down near Fosters Mill Road and Livingston Road.
October 2009FloodLivingston$1,000The USGS stream gage along the Coosa River near Rome reached its flood stage of 24.0 feet at 307 am EDT and remained in flood until 745 pm EDT. Damage was confined to minor debris removal adjacent to the river.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Anniedelle2.6 miles17
Coosa2.9 miles17
Foster Mills3.2 miles17
Krannert3.3 miles17
Mount Hope (historical)3.9 miles17
Oreburg3.9 miles17
Benton4.3 miles17
Melson4.3 miles17

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 LivingstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4846372The 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 332249. 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.