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Myricks Mill, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the North Twiggs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31044. It stands on Game Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dry Branch quadrangle.

Myricks Mill within Twiggs County

On record in Myricks Mill

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

320 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 320 fires within 5 miles of Myricks Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,235 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 58 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 burning148
Arson/incendiarism58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking23
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony8

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
30 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-TWIGGS-005
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TWIGGS-007
25 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TWIGGS-008
25 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TWIGGS-010
25 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TWIGGS-009
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Twiggs County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Myricks Mill: 23 past producers, 15 producers, 1 occurrence. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Aluminum, Clay. 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
Gordon PitClayOccurrence
Columbia MineAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
Fitzpatrick MineAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
Georgia Kaolin Mine No. 11AluminumPast Producer
17 MineKaolinPast Producer
Anglo-American Wilkinson MineKaolinProducer
Brooks Mine Pit AKaolinProducer
Brooks Mine Pit BKaolinProducer
Cannon MineKaolinPast Producer
Crosby No. 3 MineKaolinPast Producer

Every working recorded in Twiggs County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Myricks Mill in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
January 2006Thunderstorm WindMyricks Mill$50,000The Twiggs County 911 Center reported that a number of trees were down in the extreme north part of the county near the Jones county line, about five miles northeast of Dry Branch. One tree had fallen through the roof of a home.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMyricks Mill$1,000The Twiggs County Sherif reported that a few trees were blown down on Myricks Mill Road.
March 2023Tornado (EF0)Myricks Mill-A EF0 tornado briefly touched just east of Mountain Springs Church Road in northern Twiggs County. The tornado snapped and uprooted trees behind a home along the road and blew siding off of a home next to a main power line running through the area. Several trees were snapped and uprooted on either side of the clearing for the powerlines. The tornado quickly lifted within a heavily forested area shortly after touching down.

Every storm recorded in Twiggs 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
Fitzpatrick4.1 miles11
Ripley4.6 miles11
Dry Branch6.6 miles10
Jeffersonville6.9 miles11
Marion9.0 miles11
Huber11.0 miles11
Reids11.1 miles11
District Path11.8 miles10

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 Q122565127The 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 356417. 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.