Starrs Mill, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Peachtree City-Tyrone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30215. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Senoia quadrangle.

Starrs Mill within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Senoia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Starrs Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 678 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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	67
Arson/incendiarism	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-COWETA-001
5 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020COWETA004
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-COWETA-003
7 August 2006	Natural	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Starrs Mill: 1 prospect. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Porter Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Starrs Mill in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2005	Lightning	Starrs Mill	1 hurt, $10,000	The Fayette County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a home in the Lone Oak Estates subdivision of Padgett Road in the far southeast portion of the county. The home suffered minor damage. In addition, one person in the home was injured by the lightning strike and was transported to the hospital with minor injuries.
August 2010	Lightning	Starrs Mill	$25,000	The Peachtree City Fire Department reported that lightning struck a home on Spring Court off Rockaway Road, approximately three miles southeast of Peachtree City. Damage to the structure was minor.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrs Mill	$1,500	The Fayette County Emergency Manager reported that six trees were blown down along and near the Georgia Highway 85 Connector.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrs Mill	$1,000	NWS employee reported a tree down at the 400 block of Rising Star Rd.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrs Mill	$1,000	Tree downed across Redwine Road near Woodcreek Lane.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrs Mill	$1,000	Tree down at Redwin and Woodcreek.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrs Mill	$1,000	Power lines down at Padgett Rd near Kimberly Ct.
March 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrs Mill	$1,000	An off-duty National Weather Service Employee reported a large tree blown down across Redwine Road near Robinson Road.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrs Mill	$1,000	A National Weather Service employee reported a tree blown down across a golf cart path at Holly Grove Church Road.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrs Mill	$1,000	The public reported two trees down near Starrs Mill, an off duty National Weather Service employee observed one tree down on Georgia Highway 85 north of Starrs Mill, and an amateur radio operator reported one tree down on Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree City.
August 2003	Lightning	Starrs Mill	$750	An off-duty National Weather Service (NWS) employee reported that lightning struck his house. Damage was confined to electrical equipment, including a couple of computers, a light fixture, stove light switch control, and an electronic light timer. No fire occurred.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrs Mill	$500	A NWS employee reported one pine tree blown down along Redwine Road.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrs Mill	$100	Thunderstorm winds knocked down a pine tree near Starrs Mill and Bradford pear tree west of Hampton.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Starrs Mill	-	Report of a large tree down in the area of the Woodcreek Development.
April 2017	Hail	Starrs Mill	-	A National Weather Service employee reported penny size hail in the Whitewater area.
April 1998	Hail	Starrs Mill	-	Dime to nickel size hail covered the ground.
October 2002	Heavy Rain	Starrs Mill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Foreston Place	1.9 miles	9
The Rubicon	2.1 miles	9
Bedford Park	2.2 miles	9
Whitewater	2.2 miles	9
Kenton Place	2.3 miles	9
Oakdale	2.4 miles	9
The Colonnade	2.4 miles	9
Waterford Green	2.5 miles	9

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.

Wikipedia article on Starrs Mill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7602260	The 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 333117. 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.