Red Hill, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Carnesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30521. The Survey maps it on the Red Hill quadrangle.

Red Hill within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Red Hill quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

210 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Red Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 410 acres in total. 10 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	124
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Arson/incendiarism	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	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
8 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-007
17 September 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Hill in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2013: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Hill	-	Multiple trees were blown down off highway 320 near the Stephens County line.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Hill	-	Multiple trees were blown down at highway 145 and highway 106.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Red Hill	-	Large tree limbs were blown down off Barrett Dr and a tree was blown down on Hunters Creek Rd.
April 2009	Tornado (EF2)	Red Hill	-	The tornado damage path began near Farmers Academy Rd, about 0.5 mile south of highway 106. The tornado crossed Red Hill School Rd, where some outbuildings were destroyed and a couple of mobile homes received minor roof damage. As the tornado continued northeast, some frame homes on highway 106 received minor roof damage. The most significant damage occurred on Crumps Bridge Rd, where one large chicken house was completely destroyed, and several others received major damage. The tornado continued to move northeast, uprooting or snapping off numerous trees as it crossed highway 145 and Greater Hope Rd. From there, the tornado began to move in a more east/northeast direction, continuing to blow down trees as it moved roughly parallel to North Clarks Creek Rd. As the tornado crossed Hulsey Rd, roofs were blown off the wood frame addition to a mobile home and a barn. After the tornado crossed highway 17 and Pleasant Hill Circle, it continued to turn more to the right, traveling due east near the to Wilson Rd, where a mobile home was moved off its foundation, and the steel siding and some roofing material was blown off a building. The tornado continued to travel east, or even east/southeast, before lifting in the Gerrard Rd area.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Parhams	1.2 miles	15
Vandiver	2.4 miles	13
Salubrity (historical)	2.4 miles	15
Carnesville	4.7 miles	15
Unity	5.3 miles	13
Fairview	5.3 miles	15
Prospect	6.8 miles	14
Walnut Hill (historical)	6.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332808. 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.