Star Mills, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Culloden-Bolingbroke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31029. It stands on Cooks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Forsyth quadrangle.

Star Mills within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1951 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

314 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Star Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 861 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 34 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	172
Arson/incendiarism	34
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Smoking	13
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	3

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 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2019	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MONROE002
17 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Star Mills: 6 prospects, 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
Brooks Mine	Mica	Past Producer
C A Ensign Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Calloway Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Cox Prospect	Mica	Prospect
F B Willingham Prospect	Mica	Prospect
L P Goodwin Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Old Callaway Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Phinazee Mines	Mica	Past Producer
Rosa Fletcher Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Thurman Mine	Mica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

4 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Star Mills in 4 storm reports in 2025: 4 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
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Star Mills	$5,000	Multiple trees down in radius of agnes st and railroad ave.
February 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Star Mills	$3,000	Em reports several trees down southeast of foresyth between ga41 and hwy 401.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Star Mills	$2,000	Broadcast media report tree down on powerlines at johnson ln near juliette rd.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Star Mills	$1,000	Two trees down near the intersection of ga highway 42 and josey road.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Forsyth	1.3 miles	14
Maynard	2.7 miles	14
Brighton Mills	2.7 miles	14
Brighton Heights	2.7 miles	14
Smarr	3.2 miles	10
Collier	5.5 miles	10
Brent	5.6 miles	10
Logwall	6.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334714. 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.