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Omaha Springs, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Stapleton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30803. The Survey maps it on the Gibson quadrangle.

Omaha Springs within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

276 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 276 fires within 5 miles of Omaha Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,039 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 16 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 burning160
Natural25
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Smoking17
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
9 September 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-GLASCOCK-001
9 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GLASCOCK-003
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1995Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-GLASCOCK-002
14 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-JEFFERSON-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Omaha Springs: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin. 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
Walden MineKaolinProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Omaha Springs in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2020Flash FloodOmaha Springs$10,000The Emergency Manager reported a road washed out near the intersection of Clarks Mill Road and Highway 102/88. Radar estimates indicate that 6 to 8 inches of rain occurred over the area, causing the flash flooding.
July 2013FloodOmaha Springs$6,000The Jefferson County emergency manager reported washed out roads near Avera. Almost two inches of rainfall in a 3 hour period on already wet soils quickly overwhelmed the drainage systems.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindOmaha Springs$1,000Large tree down on Clarks Mill Road, between Avera and Hwy 540 West.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Avera1.9 miles9
Magnolia4.7 miles10
Stapleton5.1 miles16
Stapletons Crossroads5.2 miles10
Wrens Station7.7 miles16
Wrens8.4 miles16
Zebina10.0 miles16
Brinson Crossing10.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122558931The 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 332575. 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.