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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1941 USGS Adairsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Adairsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Sonoraville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
266 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 156 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 64 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2014-GORDON-001 |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-GORDON-002 |
| 5 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-GORDON-011 |
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020GORDON006 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R T Dempsey Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Iron Deposit | Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
5 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Hail | Sonoraville | $290,000 | The public reported hail the size of tennis balls near the intersection of Fairmont Highway and Cash Road, shattering the windshield of a car. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sonoraville | $250,000 | The 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 2011 | Hail | Sonoraville | - | 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 1999 | Hail | Sonoraville | - | The public reported dime size hail east of Sonoraville. The countyEMA Director reported dime size hail two to three inches deep in Fairmount. |
| September 1993 | Hail | Sonoraville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmville | 1.9 miles | 19 | |
| Yarbroughs Mill | 2.3 miles | 19 | |
| Big Spring (historical) | 2.4 miles | 19 | |
| Bowls (historical) | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Cash | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Fambro (historical) | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Lewis Corner | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Blackwood | 5.0 miles | 19 |
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 Sonoraville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7562246 | The 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.










