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Robinson, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Crawfordville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30669. The Survey maps it on the Crawfordville quadrangle.

Robinson within Taliaferro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Robinson between 1992 and 2019, burning about 839 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 21 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 burning73
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking14
Railroad operations and maintenance7
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
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Arson/incendiarism50 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use49 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taliaferro County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Robinson: 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Iron, Mica. 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
Sunshine MineMicaPast Producer
Taliaferro Magnetite DepositIronPast Producer1917
Georgia Manganese CompanyManganeseUnknown1916
Hackney-LucasGoldPast ProducerVein
Mitchell Hill ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
W. H. Murden PropertyManganesePast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Taliaferro County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Robinson in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2012: 1 hail, 1 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
May 2008HailRobinson$8,000The Taliaferro County 911 Center relayed reports of golf ball-sized hail from the western part of the county.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindRobinson$3,000The Talliaferro County 911 Center reported that a few trees and a few power lines were blown down near U.S. Highway 278.

Every storm recorded in Taliaferro 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
Springfield3.7 miles13
Lyneville4.8 miles13
Crawfordville5.5 miles14
Edgewood Crossroads6.4 miles14
Carters Grove7.9 miles13
Hillman10.4 miles13
Sharon10.6 miles13
Raytown12.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326493. 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.