New Town, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Washington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30673. It stands on Williamson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Celeste quadrangle.

New Town within Wilkes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1906 USGS Crawfordville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Celeste quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of New Town between 1992 and 2019, burning about 518 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 5 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	51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WILKES-001
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2018	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019WILKES001
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WILKES-007
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WILKES-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Town in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	New Town	$8,000	At least two areas where multiple trees were blown down on either side of the town of Tignall. Specifica locations include, near the intersection of Newton road and Jane Hill Road southwest of Tignall, and around Flatrock Road and Annie Blackmon Road.

Every storm recorded in Wilkes 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bessie (historical)	0.2 miles	12
Prather	0.9 miles	12
Brickhouse	2.5 miles	12
Armstrong (historical)	2.6 miles	12
Celeste	2.7 miles	12
Callaway	3.5 miles	12
Linesville	3.6 miles	12
Thaxton (historical)	4.2 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332493. 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.