Normantown, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vidalia-Lyons census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30474. The Survey maps it on the Oak Park quadrangle.

Normantown within Toombs County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Oak Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Vidalia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

384 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 384 fires within 5 miles of Normantown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,771 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 71 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	228
Arson/incendiarism	71
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	11
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	7

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
30 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Smoking	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TOOMBS014
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TOOMBS-012
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TOOMBS-017

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Toombs County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Normantown in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2008: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
May 2008	Tornado (EF2)	Normantown	3 hurt, $500,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that an EF2 tornado touched down in extreme northwest Toombs county, approxmiately three miles south-southwest of Normantown. This tornado was spawned by the same thunderstorm that less than 10 minutes prior had spanwed an EF3 tornado, the strongest tornado of this event, just south of Soperton in Treutlen county, which tracked into extreme northeast Montgomery county. This first tornado in Toombs county was only on the ground for about one mile, but caused considerable damage. Four mobile homes were completely destroyed, resulting in three minor injuries and the displacement of seven families from their homes. A church also sustained heavy damage. Two brick homes were damaged as well as several barns, sheds, and storage buildings. In addition a tractor-trailer rig was overturned. Some 200 to 300 pine trees were also blown down in the area. The tornado path width was determined to be 150 yards.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Normantown	$50,000	The Toombs County Emergency Management Director reported that an apparent microburst or downburst caused considerable damage to trees and structures in a small area approximately three miles southeast of Normantown. The majority of the damage occurred along Geren Williams Road, just west of U.S. Highway 1 and just south of the Emanuel county line. A roof was blown off a double-wide mobile home with minor to moderate damage noted to the adjacent 1000 square foot site-built home. Another 200 to 250 yards further downstream, the roof was blown off a barn and one 18-20 foot cedar tree was snapped off four feet above the ground. A little further downstream, a large oak tree was uprooted causing an adjacent burial vault to be unearthed. All together three to four large trees were uprooted or broken off during the event.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Normantown	$3,000	The Toombs County Emergency Management Director reported that at least 10 trees were down across the county, including the Vidalia area.
June 2000	Lightning	Normantown	$1,000	The Toombs county 911 center reported that lightning started a brush fire in Normantown.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Normantown	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees and large limbs in all locations across the county.

Every storm recorded in Toombs 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
Vidalia	6.5 miles	9
Charles	6.6 miles	9
Elton (historical)	7.4 miles	9
Lyons	7.5 miles	10
Santa Claus	9.5 miles	10
Ponderosa	9.8 miles	10
Ohoopee	11.8 miles	9
Center	12.4 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 319627. 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.