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Paoli, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Comer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30629. The Survey maps it on the Carlton quadrangle.

Paoli within Madison County

On record in Paoli

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Paoli between 1992 and 2019, burning about 359 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 37 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 burning114
Arson/incendiarism37
Smoking17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural10
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony4

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 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Paoli: 6 prospects, 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
Brown PropertyGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Carrington PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
J. Threlkeld PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
King PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
O. Threlkeld PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
Parham PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
Ridgeway PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Smith PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Webb PlacerGoldProspectPlacer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paoli in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2011: 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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 2004Tornado (F0)Paoli$50,000A damage assessment conducted by the National Weather Service and the Madison County Emergency Management Director concluded that a short-lived, F0 tornado, associated with the remnants of Hurricane Ivan, touched down near Paoli at the intersection of New Hope Church Road and Paoli New Towns Road and travelled north-northwest at 40 mph along a one-mile long broken path treminating near Collins Brooks Road. One barn was completely destroyed along the path and several homes sustained minor structural damage. Numerous trees were topped along the path of the tornado.
August 2011Heavy RainPaoli-The Madison County Emergency Management Director reported that heavy rain, on the order of two to three inches with isolated four inch totals, caused minor flooding of low-lying areas and several drainage ditches to overflow. Some lawns were standing in water for a few hours after the thunderstorms moved out of the area. Flooding was not deemed to be of the level meeting local flood or flash flood criteria.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Vineyard Creek1.8 miles14
Comer2.7 miles14
Newtown2.8 miles14
Gholston Stand Crossroads2.9 miles14
Jeptha3.2 miles14
Ross3.5 miles14
Porterfield4.0 miles14
Carlton4.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332601. 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.