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Newborn, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mansfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30056. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield quadrangle. 676 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Newborn within Newton County

On record in Newborn

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Newborn fell from 696 to 676 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010696
2020676-20 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

182 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Newborn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 711 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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 burning109
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking11
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony4

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
4 September 2017Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-MORGAN-002
26 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2013Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-NEWTON-001
20 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-NEWTON-012
15 September 2001Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-NEWTON-002
15 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-NEWTON-008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newborn in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Newborn$400,000A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that an EF1 tornado touched down in far southeast Newton county, approximately one mile west of the city of Newborn, then tracked across Morgan county before moving into western Greene county and finally lifting approximately six miles west of Greensboro. The tornado had a total path length near 25 miles, of which roughly two miles occurred within Newton county. |The maximum path width was determined to be 1/2 mile with maximum winds estimated to be 105 mph. One home was destroyed, five others suffered major damage, and 10 others sustained minor damage as a result of the tornado. Hundreds of trees were also damaged or destroyed by the tornado. Most of the damage was in or around the city of Newborn. There were no fatalities or injuries within Newton county from this tornado.||[04/27-04/28/11: Tornado #13, County #1-3, EF1, Newton-Morgan-Greene, 2011:022].
August 2003LightningNewborn$25,000The Newton county 911 center reported that a house was set on fire. Damage estimates were inconclusive.
September 2009Flash FloodNewborn$1,000The Newton County 911 Center reported flash flooding in the eastern portion of the county in association with flooding from Tanyard Branch Creek in Eastern Newton County. Water was standing on some roads in the area as well. Damage was confined to minor debris removal.
March 2005HailNewborn-The public reported nickel-sized hail at a convenience store.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Mansfield2.0 miles16
Jerusalem2.4 miles16
Mansfield Estates2.9 miles17
Silver Lake3.0 miles17
Pine Grove3.8 miles16
Hayston3.8 miles17
Hollow Hills4.9 miles17
Willow Woods5.0 miles16

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 NewbornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2175737The 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 319570. 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.