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Ludville, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ludville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30175. It stands on Jackson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ludville quadrangle.

Ludville within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

373 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 373 fires within 5 miles of Ludville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,762 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 206 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/incendiarism206
Debris and open burning102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking8
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
8 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LUMPKIN-003
7 September 1997Debris and open burning7.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019PICKENS001
22 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ludville: 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Iron, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Betz MineGoldPast Producer
H.M. Shellhorse PropertyIronOccurrence
Mine No. 3Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jerusalem QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Pine Log QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ludville in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLudville$50,000The public reported that several trees were blown down, including one on a house.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindLudville$6,000The Pickens County 911 center reported several trees blown down from Ludville, along Ludville School Road, to Northwest of Talking Rock along Keetor Road and Chance Way.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLudville$1,000Tree reported down near the intersection of Hwy 53 and Bryant Rd.
February 2020Flash FloodLudville-The Emergency Manager reported water flowing over Evans Road from Bryant Creek. Radar estimates indicate 2 to 4 inches of rain occurred over the area, falling on already wet soils and producing flash flooding.
April 2006HailLudville-A storm spotter reported penny-sized hail in the Ludville area.
March 2000HailLudville-The public reported golf ball size hail.

Every storm recorded in Pickens 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
Hinton1.6 miles19
Jerusalem2.4 miles19
Scarecorn2.6 miles20
McDaniel2.9 miles19
Talmadge3.3 miles19
Blaine4.0 miles20
Clipper5.2 miles20
Sweden5.4 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122595284The 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 332279. 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.