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North Elberton, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Elberton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30635. It stands on Carters Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rock Branch quadrangle.

North Elberton within Elbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

267 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of North Elberton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 502 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 20 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 burning140
Equipment and vehicle use31
Smoking20
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Natural11
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony3

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Natural4.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-ELBERT-002
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2007Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of North Elberton: 8 producers, 6 past producers, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kaolin, Stone, Dimension. 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
Continental QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Mrs. Clem Kelley ProspectKaolinProspect
Childs Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Old Harper QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Adams QuarryGraniteProducer
Beaver Dam QuarryGranitePast Producer
Coronet QuarryGranitePast Producer
Hedquist Pink Quarry Keystone GrGraniteProducer
Peerless Extra Blue QuarryGraniteProducer
Pyramid QuarryGraniteProducer

Every working recorded in Elbert County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Elberton in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flood, 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
July 2013FloodNorth Elberton$10,000Flood waters from Beaverdam Creek covered portions of the Red Minnow Fish Lodge, located off of Brewers Bridge Road. Some mobile homes were flooded in this area as well.
September 2020Flash FloodNorth Elberton$5,000A stream gauge on Beaverdam Creek north of Elberton exceeded its established flood stage after 2 to 3 inches of rain fell in around 12 hours. At this level, a couple of unpaved roads are inundated in the Dewy Rose community and the crawl space of a restaurant is flooded on Brewers Bridge Rd. In addition, county comms reported a tributary of Van Creek overflowed its banks and inundated Amberley Rd in the northeast part of the county.
May 2025HailNorth Elberton-Public reported quarter size hail.
May 2024HailNorth Elberton-Ham radio operator reported quarter size hail near the intersection of Highways 368 and 77.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNorth Elberton-County comms reported trees blown down along Cecchini and Brewers Bridge Rd power lines down along Harmony Rd and more trees down along Anderson Highway.

Every storm recorded in Elbert 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
Elberton1.2 miles15
Silk Mills1.6 miles15
Clarks Junction1.9 miles14
Harmony3.6 miles14
Ethridge3.6 miles15
Goss3.7 miles14
Ruckersville4.6 miles14
Middleton5.2 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122560164The 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 332515. 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.