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Mystic, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ocilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31774. The Survey maps it on the Ocilla West quadrangle. It stands 367 feet above sea level.

Mystic within Irwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1977

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Sutton-Whiddon farm, Tift County, Georgia; Scenes on House Creek, Ben Hill County, Georgia; Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia
Sutton-Whiddon farm, Tift County, Georgia; Scenes on House Creek, Ben Hill County, Georgia; Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia
Marshall, Howard W. (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

258 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 258 fires within 5 miles of Mystic between 1992 and 2019, burning about 675 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 20 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 burning183
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3

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 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-IRWIN-004
29 September 1995Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2017Debris and open burning5.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-IRWIN-004
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Irwin 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 Mystic: 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
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium

Every working recorded in Irwin County

Storms near this place

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mystic in 13 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 3 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2006LightningMystic1 killedA man was struck and killed by lightning outside his house. Reported by the Irwin County EMA.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindMystic$20,000Multiple sheds were blown away near Mystic. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMystic$1,000Irwin county 911 dispatch reported a tree down on Highway 107 one mile into Irwin county. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMystic-Downed trees were reported on Whitley Street.
March 2020FloodMystic-Water was reported over McCraine Road.
March 2020FloodMystic-Water was reported over Black Gum Road.
March 2020FloodMystic-Bussel Pond Report was reported underwater.
March 2020FloodMystic-Mimosa Road was flooded and closed.
March 2019HailMystic-Ping pong ball size hail was estimated via photo from the town of Mystic.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMystic-A tree was blown down on the dirt end of Bussell Pond off of Pinetta.
May 2008Funnel CloudMystic-A funnel cloud was sighted in Mystic.
May 2006HailMystic-The public reported penny size hail covering the ground.
April 2011HailMystic-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Irwin 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
Pinetta2.3 miles8
Irwinville3.1 miles8
Ocilla4.9 miles8
Lands Crossroads7.2 miles8
Waterloo7.6 miles8
Abba9.5 miles7
Riverbend9.8 miles9
Holt10.0 miles7

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 MysticAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058908The 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 319187. 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.