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Myrtle, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fort Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31030. The Survey maps it on the Perry West quadrangle.

Myrtle within Peach County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

284 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Myrtle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 757 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 28 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 burning167
Equipment and vehicle use39
Arson/incendiarism28
Natural11
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
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
9 September 1998Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021HOUSTON002
6 September 2016Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PEACH-007
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peach County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Myrtle: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Adel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Peach County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Myrtle in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 2 hail, 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
March 2019Tornado (EF0)Myrtle$50,000A National Weather Service survey found that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 mph and a maximum path width of 300 yards crossed Big Indian Creek from Macon County in to Peach County west of Norwood Springs Road. The tornado moved east, crossing Norwood Springs Road where several trees were snapped and a metal outbuilding was damaged. Sheets of metal siding and roofing from this outbuilding were lifted into the tops of nearby trees. Along Clopine Lake Road, numerous trees were snapped or uprooted as the tornado crossed the road and a mobile home sustained damage to the roof and skirting. A metal outbuilding had one of its 3 south-facing doors blown off and thrown onto a nearby building. A 30 foot section of wooden fencing was snapped off at the base of the posts. The tornado continued a short distance east past Clopine Lake Road but dissipated before reaching Valley Drive. No injuries were reported. [03/03/19: Tornado #12, County #2/2, EF0, Peach, 2019:017].
December 2005HailMyrtle-The public observed penny-sized hail.
August 2000HailMyrtle-The Holiday Foods grocery store reported dime size hail about halfway between Fagan and Myrtle on U.S. 341.

Every storm recorded in Peach 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
Clopine0.8 miles9
Oak Grove3.1 miles10
Fagan3.4 miles10
Albaugh4.1 miles10
Miami Valley4.7 miles10
Edgewood4.9 miles10
Ponderosa Lake5.4 miles11
Washington Square5.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332459. 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.