BlockBefore

Starksville, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31763. It stands on White Oak Branch. The Survey maps it on the Neyami quadrangle.

Starksville within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Starksville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 678 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 19 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 burning135
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Natural7
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2016Debris and open burning5.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-LEE-006
8 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Smoking5.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LEE-011
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LEE-010
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning46 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LEE005
25 September 2010Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LEE-009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Starksville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bauxite MineAluminumPast Producer
Dobson MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

13 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Starksville in 13 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindStarksville$75,000Six wood power transmission poles 12 to 14 inches in diameter were snapped and doors were blown out at the Ag Research Center near U.S. Highway 19. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindStarksville$2,000A tree was blown down in the backyard of a resident and damaged a shed.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindStarksville$2,000A tree was blown down onto a power line.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindStarksville-A tree was blown down onto a personal property along Lumpkin Road.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindStarksville-A personal weather station measured a wind gust of 92.8 mph just north of Leesburg.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindStarksville-Numerous trees were blown down across the county.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindStarksville-Trees were blown down.
March 2020FloodStarksville-Water was reported over Lumpkin Road.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindStarksville-A tree was blown down at Lumpkin Road and Smithville Road.
December 2018Flash FloodStarksville-Flash flooding affected structures on Lumpkin Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindStarksville-A few trees were blown down at Old Stage Road and Highway 195.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindStarksville-A tree was blown down near the 100 block of Highway 377.
April 2017Funnel CloudStarksville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Mossy Dell1.9 miles10
Leesburg3.1 miles10
Jordan Place3.5 miles9
Neyami5.1 miles9
Byne Crossroads6.5 miles10
Century6.6 miles10
Chehaw6.7 miles10
Scrutchins6.9 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122566340The 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 356557. 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.