Pearl, Georgia
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Coldwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30635. It stands on Blue Branch. The Survey maps it on the Heardmont quadrangle.
On record in Pearl
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- William Allen House, County Road 245, Pearlfederal building survey, 1 photograph
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Elberton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Heardmont quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
2 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
91 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Pearl between 1992 and 2020, burning about 329 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 3 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 | 37 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 6.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020ELBERT004 |
| 17 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-ELBERT-004 |
| 14 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 7.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pearl in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pearl | $1,000 | Fire dept reported more than a dozen trees blown down, along with snapped power lines and a brick retaining wall blown over. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pearl | - | Spotter reported a couple of trees blown down near Russell Dam. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pearl | - | County comms reported several trees blown down across Brad Dixon Rd. |
| December 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pearl | - | Trees were blown down along highway 79 about 12 miles east southeast of Elberton. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beverly | 1.0 miles | 14 | |
| Heardmont | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Middleton | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Stansell (historical) | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Edinburg (historical) | 5.2 miles | 14 | |
| Ruckersville | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Cauthen | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Silk Mills | 6.7 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332625. 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.




