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Norris, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Norris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30828. The Survey maps it on the Warrenton quadrangle.

Norris within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Norris between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,041 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 6 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 burning118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking12
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance6

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
6 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2017Debris and open burning5.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-WARREN-003
26 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WARREN009
21 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-WARREN-003
19 September 2019Debris and open burning3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WARREN007
13 September 2015Recreation and ceremony3.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-WARREN-002
11 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WARREN006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norris in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2009: 1 hail, 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindNorris$1,000The Warren County 911 Center reported that a few trees were blown down in the far western portion of the county near the Hancock county line.
October 2006HailNorris-The Warren County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Stony Hill1.8 miles10
Warrenton3.7 miles10
East Warrenton4.8 miles10
Silvertown5.0 miles10
Beall Springs5.1 miles10
Ansley5.2 miles10
Norwood5.6 miles10
Plainview5.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332510. 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.