Pedenville, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Williamson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30206. It stands on Birch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle.

Pedenville within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Concord quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Pedenville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,077 acres in total. 4 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 burning	116
Arson/incendiarism	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
8 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	122 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2018	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019PIKE001
21 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-PIKE-001
16 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pedenville: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Flat Rock Porphyritic Granite Pros	Granite	Prospect
	Flat Shoals Prospect	Granite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pedenville in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 1 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2013	Tornado (EF2)	Pedenville	$160,000	A National Weather Service survey team determined that an EF-2 tornado that touched down in Meriwether County continued into Pike County. A home sustained minor roof damage, had both doors blown out, and four front windows were damaged. One barn was completely destroyed, and another shifted several feet off its foundation. A pontoon boat was thrown into a third barn. Two neighboring houses sustained minor damage, one to the roof and another to the garage. Thousands of trees were snapped or uprooted, some falling on homes.\|[03/18/13: Tornado #1, County #2-2, EF2, Meriwether-Pike, 2013:004].
March 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Pedenville	$2,000	The Pike County 911 center reported several trees down across the county.
January 2024	Flash Flood	Pedenville	-	The Emergency Manager reported River Road closed due to floodwater from a nearby creek. Radar estimates indicate between 4 and 5 inches of rain occurred over the area, resulting in the flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hilltop	3.5 miles	9
Hollonville	3.5 miles	9
Concord	3.8 miles	9
Bottoms	4.6 miles	9
Neal	5.0 miles	9
Smiths Chapel	5.5 miles	9
Jolly	5.6 miles	9
Beeks (historical)	5.6 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326462. 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.