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Poplar Springs, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tallapoosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30113. It stands on Flat Wood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tallapoosa North quadrangle.

Poplar Springs within Haralson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

523 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 523 fires within 5 miles of Poplar Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,122 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 307 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
Arson/incendiarism307
Debris and open burning160
Equipment and vehicle use16
Recreation and ceremony13
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking4

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
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HARALSON009
6 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARALSON-005
6 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-HARALSON-004
30 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HARALSON-007
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haralson 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 Poplar Springs: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur. 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
Edwards MineGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Jackson-Mcbride ProspectSulfurOccurrence

Every working recorded in Haralson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poplar Springs in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPoplar Springs$4,000The Haralson County 911 center reported a few trees blown down along Highway 100 from Jacksonville Road to Cross Roads Church Road.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindPoplar Springs$250The Polk County 911 Center reported that a tree was blown down on Highway 100.
June 2011HailPoplar Springs-The public observed quarter-sized hail on Jacksonville Road north of Tallapoosa and west of Buchanan. WSR-88D radar data suggests that similar-sized hail likely continued to the northeast and toward Buchanan.

Every storm recorded in Haralson 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
Steadman2.4 miles14
Old Tallapoosa4.0 miles14
Tabernacle4.6 miles16
Tallapoosa4.7 miles15
Little Creek5.3 miles14
Buchanan5.4 miles16
Abernathys Mill5.6 miles16
Hooper5.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332731. 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.