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Springfield, Georgia

13 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. It stands on Lynn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Philomath quadrangle.

Springfield within Taliaferro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Springfield between 1992 and 2019, burning about 470 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 13 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Arson/incendiarism50 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use49 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Springfield: 6 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Gold, 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
Hackney-LucasGoldPast ProducerVein
Mitchell Hill ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Ga Manganese Co Mine/Taliaferro Magnetite MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
Georgia Manganese CompanyManganeseUnknown1916
W. H. Murden PropertyManganesePast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Taliaferro County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springfield in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSpringfield$5,000Multiple trees were downed in the Springfield Community.

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
Lyneville1.2 miles13
Robinson3.7 miles14
Edgewood Crossroads3.9 miles14
Carters Grove4.5 miles13
Crawfordville5.8 miles14
Hillman8.2 miles13
Sharon9.4 miles13
Raytown11.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326528. 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.