Springvale, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cuthbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39867. The Survey maps it on the Morris quadrangle.

Springvale within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Morris quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

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 Springvale between 1992 and 2019, burning about 420 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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	74
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1

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
24 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-RANDOLPH-005
21 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-QUITMAN-001
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2012	Debris and open burning	6.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-QUITMAN-001
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	6.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Springvale: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Springvale Bauxite District	Kaolin, Aluminum	Past Producer	1916
Fussell Mine	Aluminum	Past Producer
Garner Mine	Aluminum	Past Producer
Springvale Mine	Aluminum	Past Producer
Yarboro Mine	Aluminum	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Springvale in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Springvale	$50,000	Straight line winds damaged three mobile homes and downed numerous trees across the northern portion of the county.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Springvale	$1,000	A tree was blown down across Highway 82 in the Springvale area.
March 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Springvale	-	The tornado moved across the Chattahoochee River from Alabama and crossed into Georgia along Deer Point Rd. Trees were snapped and a home suffered roof damage along the river. The tornado continued moving east northeast just to the south of Deer Point Rd snapping and uprooting dozens of trees along its path. A home had an outbuilding completely destroyed and a barn was destroyed as well. The tornado continued further into Quitman County eventually crossing HWY 82 where several trees were downed including one that crushed a mobile home. A man in the mobile home was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Damage, consisting of snapped and uprooted trees continued to the east northeast through eastern Quitman County into Randolph County. The last accessible damage was along HWY 27 six miles north of Cuthbert where a few dozen pine trees were snapped and other trees were uprooted. The tornado continued into inaccessible areas further east at this point. The tornado was rated EF1 for Quitman and Randolph counties with max winds estimated at 100 mph.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Springvale	-	Numerous trees were blown down throughout Randolph county.
May 2024	Hail	Springvale	-	no account filed
June 2023	Hail	Springvale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Peterson Hill	3.6 miles	7
Coles	5.7 miles	7
Pumpkintown	5.8 miles	7
Cuthbert	6.2 miles	7
Wades	6.7 miles	7
Benevolence	8.5 miles	7
Gore	9.6 miles	7
Coleman	10.7 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 323479. 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.