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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.

Pearl within Elbert County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

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.

William Allen House, County Road 245, Pearl, Elbert County, GA
William Allen House, County Road 245, Pearl, Elbert County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Pearle Cotton Mill & Dam, Elbert County Road 245, Elberton, Elbert County, GA
Pearle Cotton Mill & Dam, Elbert County Road 245, Elberton, Elbert County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

91 since 1992

Regional 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 burning37
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
20 September 1997Debris and open burning6.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2005Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020ELBERT004
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-ELBERT-004
14 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance7.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elbert County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2023Thunderstorm WindPearl$1,000Fire dept reported more than a dozen trees blown down, along with snapped power lines and a brick retaining wall blown over.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPearl-Spotter reported a couple of trees blown down near Russell Dam.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindPearl-County comms reported several trees blown down across Brad Dixon Rd.
December 2009Thunderstorm WindPearl-Trees were blown down along highway 79 about 12 miles east southeast of Elberton.

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
Beverly1.0 miles14
Heardmont1.3 miles14
Middleton2.6 miles15
Stansell (historical)3.0 miles14
Edinburg (historical)5.2 miles14
Ruckersville5.3 miles14
Cauthen6.6 miles15
Silk Mills6.7 miles15

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.