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Sonoraville, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairmount census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30701. It stands on Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sonoraville quadrangle. It stands 718 feet above sea level.

Sonoraville within Gordon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Sonoraville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 759 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 64 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 burning156
Arson/incendiarism64
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4

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 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-GORDON-001
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GORDON-002
5 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Arson/incendiarism6.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-GORDON-011
23 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020GORDON006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon 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 Sonoraville: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
R T Dempsey ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed Iron DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Gordon County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sonoraville in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 4 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
August 2020HailSonoraville$290,000The public reported hail the size of tennis balls near the intersection of Fairmont Highway and Cash Road, shattering the windshield of a car.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSonoraville$250,000The Gordon County 911 Center reported widespread damage to trees and power lines across the southeast part of the county from Sonoraville to Fairmount and Ranger. At least one home in the area suffered significant damage from several large trees blown down onto the structure. Along U.S. Highway 41N, a portion of a roof of a commercial building was blown off into the adjacent parking lot.
April 2011HailSonoraville-Several reports of hail, ranging in size from pennies to half-dollars, were received from the public across the southeast part of Gordon county from just south of Sonoraville along the Bartow county line to just east-northeast of Fairmount.
April 1999HailSonoraville-The public reported dime size hail east of Sonoraville. The countyEMA Director reported dime size hail two to three inches deep in Fairmount.
September 1993HailSonoraville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gordon 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
Farmville1.9 miles19
Yarbroughs Mill2.3 miles19
Big Spring (historical)2.4 miles19
Bowls (historical)2.7 miles19
Cash2.9 miles19
Fambro (historical)3.1 miles19
Lewis Corner4.6 miles18
Blackwood5.0 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on SonoravilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7562246The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 323220. 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.