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Louvale, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Omaha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31814. It stands on Black Creek. The Survey maps it on the Louvale quadrangle.

Louvale within Stewart County

On record in Louvale

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Louvale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 357 acres in total. 2 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 burning76
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking7
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2010Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-STEWART-002
9 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-STEWART-005
30 September 1994Debris and open burning16 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Smoking3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-STEWART-006
19 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Arson/incendiarism9.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stewart County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louvale in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 4 hail, 4 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
April 1999Thunderstorm WindLouvale$5,000no account filed
November 1997HailLouvale$2,000no account filed
March 2026Thunderstorm WindLouvale$1,000Tree down on a house on old louvale road .
January 2001Thunderstorm WindLouvale$500The Stewart county 911 center reported two trees down near Louvale.
May 1999HailLouvale-Nickel size hail fell in Louvale.
April 1999HailLouvale-no account filed
May 1999HailLouvale-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindLouvale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stewart 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
Louvale Station1.7 miles12
Charles3.3 miles12
Union4.3 miles12
Green Hill (historical)4.9 miles12
Brooklyn6.2 miles7
Orletta (historical)6.3 miles12
Upper Bradley Place6.7 miles12
Blufftown (historical)6.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356369. 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.