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Louise, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the LaGrange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30230. The Survey maps it on the Mountville quadrangle.

Louise within Troup County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Louise between 1992 and 2019, burning about 590 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 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 burning99
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4

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 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TROUP-003
21 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-TROUP-001
19 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-TROUP-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Troup 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 Louise: 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Iron, Nickel, Arsenic, Lead. 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
H Amason ProspectArsenic, LeadProspectUnderground
Louise Chromite DepositChromium, Iron, NickelProspect1870
Pothill MineChromiumPast Producer
Turner MineChromiumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Troup County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louise in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2020HailLouise$320,000The public reported hail the size of golf balls in the Hogansville area. several cars were dented and had windshields cracked.
May 2008Tornado (EF2)Louise$80,000A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that an EF2 tornado touched down approximately one mile south of Louise or 5.5 miles northeast of LaGrange in northeast Troup county. This was just one of 15 tornadoes that affected the central portion of Georgia early on Mother's Day 2008 and the first of two tornadoes, within the same parent thunderstorm, to touch down in Troup county. The tornado touched down near the intersection of U.S. Highway 29 and Willowwood Road. The tornado tracked approximately 1 mile to the east-northeast to a point less than one mile east-southeast of Louise. The path width was approximately 150 yards wide. Three homes were damaged, a well house was destroyed, and numerous large trees were snapped in half along the path of the tornado.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLouise$25,000The Troup County 911 Center reported that several trees were down along Towns Road south and southeast of Louise. One of the trees fell on a car on the roadway.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLouise$10,000Emergency manager reported a tree down on a vehicle near the intersection of Hines Road and Towns Road.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLouise$1,000Tree down near MM 22 in Troup County along I-85.
April 2008HailLouise-The Troup County 911 Center reported quarter-sized hail across the northeast part of the county between Louise and Hogansville.

Every storm recorded in Troup 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
Whitfield0.8 miles10
Asta Village3.8 miles10
Brookstone Estates4.1 miles12
West Wind4.2 miles12
Mountville4.2 miles10
Lakeview Meadows4.4 miles10
Bass Crossroads4.4 miles10
Riverview4.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332270. 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.