State College, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fort Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31030. The Survey maps it on the Fort Valley West quadrangle.

State College within Peach County

On record in State College

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Collis Potter Huntington Halllisted 2000 · 0.2 miles away
Henry Alexander Hunt High School Gymnasiumlisted 2021 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Fort Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Fort Valley West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

333 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 333 fires within 5 miles of State College between 1992 and 2020, burning about 747 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 47 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	177
Arson/incendiarism	47
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Misuse of fire by a minor	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	15
Recreation and ceremony	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	5

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 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	98 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peach County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names State College in 1 storm report in 2015: 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 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	State College	$6,000	The Peach County 911 Center reported numerous trees and power lines blown down in the Fort Valley area, including West Church Street, Knoxville Street, North jones Street and White Street.

Every storm recorded in Peach 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
Willow Lake	0.8 miles	11
Ponderosa Lake	1.0 miles	11
Fort Valley	1.2 miles	11
Washington Square	1.2 miles	11
Valley Pines	1.4 miles	11
Peach Valley	1.4 miles	11
Indian Oaks	1.6 miles	11
Fagan	2.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334718. 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.