BlockMulberry, Georgia
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Winder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30680. It stands on Hawk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winder North quadrangle.
On record in Mulberry
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Rockwell Universalist Churchlisted 1985 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Winder North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
106 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Mulberry between 1992 and 2019, burning about 303 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 23 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 burning | 48 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1993 | Smoking | 2.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2008 | Natural | 3.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 August 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-JACKSON-001 |
| 23 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 4.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mulberry in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | $20,000 | The Barrow County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down across the county from northeast of Winder along Hickeria Way, where one tree fell onto a home, through southwest of Winder near Apalachee High School where a home on Livingston Court had minor roof damage. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | $10,000 | Power pole and lines down in the road at East Wright Street and East Brook Drive. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | $8,000 | A trained spotter reported trees and powerlines down northeast of Russell. |
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | - | Tree down across East Kimball St. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Mulberry | - | The public reported hail the size of nickels northeast of Winder. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Hill | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Winder | 3.6 miles | 17 | |
| Algernon (historical) | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Barrow Heights | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Russell | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Whistleville | 5.0 miles | 18 | |
| Carl | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Auburn | 6.2 miles | 15 |
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 Mulberry | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65085721 | The 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 357018. 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.