Stanfordville, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Little River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31024. The Survey maps it on the Stanfordville quadrangle.

Stanfordville within Putnam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Stanfordville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Stanfordville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 518 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 7 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	57
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
14 September 1997	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	JONES
14 August 1999	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-PUTNAM-008
7 July 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2014	Natural	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-PUTNAM-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanfordville in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Stanfordville	$1,000	A tree was reported down along rabbit skip rd sw.
October 1997	Hail	Stanfordville	-	Putnam county 911 received reports of dime to half-dollar size hail.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Huron (historical)	2.7 miles	11
Glenwoods Spring (historical)	3.4 miles	11
Union Hill	3.6 miles	12
Note	3.6 miles	11
Clopton (historical)	3.7 miles	12
Resseaus Crossroads	3.8 miles	12
Willard	5.9 miles	11
Linchburg	6.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 329810. 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.

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.