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Planter, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ila census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30646. The Survey maps it on the Hull quadrangle.

Planter within Madison County

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.

Fires near this place

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Planter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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 burning95
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural4
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
9 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Planter in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPlanter$7,000Numerous trees snapped or downed along hwy 106 near the intersection of Nowhere Rad.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPlanter$1,000Report of tree down at Booger Hill Rd and Hunt Rd.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPlanter$1,000Report of tree down at Booger Hill Rd and Hunt Rd.
May 2020HailPlanter-A COOP observer 6 miles west of Danielsville reported hail the size of quarters.
August 2008Funnel CloudPlanter-A trained storm spotter photographed a funnel cloud near the intersection of Georgia Highway 106 and Rogers Mill Road.

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
Seagraves1.9 miles14
Rogers2.4 miles13
Minish2.8 miles13
Sanford2.8 miles14
Neese3.2 miles14
Hix4.4 miles13
Ila4.5 miles13
Diamond Hill5.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326473. 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.