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Lyneville, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Crawfordville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30631. It stands on Sherrills Creek. The Survey maps it on the Philomath quadrangle.

Lyneville within Taliaferro 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.

Fires near this place

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Lyneville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 406 acres in total. 9 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Arson/incendiarism50 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use49 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taliaferro County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lyneville: 6 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Gold, Iron, Mica. 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
Sunshine MineMicaPast Producer
Taliaferro Magnetite DepositIronPast Producer1917
Hackney-LucasGoldPast ProducerVein
Mitchell Hill ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Ga Manganese Co Mine/Taliaferro Magnetite MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
Georgia Manganese CompanyManganeseUnknown1916
W. H. Murden PropertyManganesePast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Taliaferro County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lyneville in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindLyneville$6,000Public report of 5 to 6 trees down with power lines down at SR 22 E and Springfield Road.
March 2010HailLyneville$2,000The public observed golf ball-sized hail in the far northern part of the county between Lyneville and Carters Grove.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindLyneville$2,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down or twisted off several trees.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindLyneville$100Georgia State Patrol reported two trees were blown down..

Every storm recorded in Taliaferro 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
Springfield1.2 miles13
Edgewood Crossroads3.2 miles14
Carters Grove4.0 miles13
Robinson4.8 miles14
Crawfordville5.9 miles14
Hillman7.4 miles13
Sharon8.9 miles13
Raytown10.5 miles13

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 Q122547732The 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 326382. 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.