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Newport, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Morganton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30522. It stands on Kirby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Noontootla quadrangle.

Newport within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Newport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 353 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 24 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 burning37
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
23 September 1999Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestLICKLOG FIRE
4 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestSANDY BOTTOM FIRE
26 August 2011Smoking1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FANNIN-003
25 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National Forestnot named
30 June 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 June 2007Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestDIAL PULLOVER
2 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestBRYSON GAP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Newport: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Mccloud MineGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Noontootly CreekGoldPast ProducerVein
Wade Allenis Gold MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newport in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2015Flash FloodNewport$234,000The Fannin County Emergency Manager reported several secondary roads were flooded from nearby streams. Some area cabins along U.S. Highway 76 were beginning to flood. A debris flow had completely blocked a portion of Mountain Top Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNewport$1,000Em reported tree down at Newport Rd near Native Trl.

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Wilson Mill0.9 miles23
Stock Hill1.1 miles23
Dial2.7 miles25
Swan3.2 miles25
Aska3.4 miles23
Sugar Hill4.6 miles25
Due (historical)4.7 miles23
Three Forks4.8 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332500. 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.