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Newark, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Thomasville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31757. The Survey maps it on the Thomasville quadrangle.

Newark within Thomas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

253 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Newark between 1992 and 2020, burning about 847 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 27 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 burning172
Arson/incendiarism27
Equipment and vehicle use21
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Natural2

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 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Arson/incendiarism19 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-THOMAS-009
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-THOMAS-008
17 September 2010Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-THOMAS-006
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020THOMAS002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thomas County

Storms near this place

11 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newark in 11 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2022Thunderstorm WindNewark$2,000A pine tree top was snapped off along with downed power lines near the Thomas County Public Works office.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindNewark$2,000A tree was blown down onto a power line on Highway 84 east of Thomasville.
April 2024Flash FloodNewark-Reichertville Road between Twelve Mile Post and Boston Monticello washed away.
April 2024Flash FloodNewark-Summerhill Road between the 4500 block of Summerhill and McKinnon at the Aucilla River Bridge had water over the road.
September 2024Flash FloodNewark-Water was flowing over the bridge on Cone Road.
December 2023Thunderstorm WindNewark-A tree was blown down on Russel Dr and Highway 84 East.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindNewark-A few homes were damaged off of Highway 84 in the Shady Rest area.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNewark-A tree was blown down onto a power line on Crabapple Dr.
July 2016HailNewark-Hail was estimated at quarter size just east of Thomasville.
March 2012Heavy RainNewark-A 24 hour total of 6.95 inches was measured at GA-TH-4.
November 2025HailNewark-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thomas 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
Lambville (historical)0.7 miles8
McLoughlin Heights3.2 miles8
Eason3.3 miles7
Thomasville3.8 miles8
Fletcherville3.9 miles8
Theodore Heights4.1 miles8
Beverly (historical)4.1 miles8
Booker Heights4.7 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332495. 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.