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Steadman, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tallapoosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30176. The Survey maps it on the Tallapoosa North quadrangle.

Steadman within Haralson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

561 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 561 fires within 5 miles of Steadman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,121 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 347 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
Arson/incendiarism347
Debris and open burning158
Equipment and vehicle use18
Recreation and ceremony15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1

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 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-5
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARALSON-005
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190905-5
30 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-HARALSON-004
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haralson 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 Steadman: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brown ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Haralson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steadman in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSteadman$50,000The Haralson County Emergency Manager reported six to seven large trees blown down at Jacksonville Road and Pleasant Hill Church Road. One tree crashed through a house. No injuries were reported.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindSteadman$15,000The Haralson County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down across the county from west and north of Tallapoosa, across Buchanan to northwest of Draketown. Some locations include Wildcat Road, U.S. Highway 27 Business and West Head Avenue, J. Davis Road near U.S. Highway 78, Old Ridgeway Road at Old Bush Mill Road, and 5 Points Road at Allred Road. Parts of a metal roof were blown off an outbuilding in the Piney Woods area.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSteadman$7,000The Haralson County 911 center reported trees blown down from north of Tallapoosa to Buchanan. Locations include Broad Street near the Alabama state line, Wildcat Road, Highway 100 near Poplar Springs Church Road and Highway 120 at Jacksonville Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSteadman-Report of tree down on Steadham Rd.

Every storm recorded in Haralson 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
Poplar Springs2.4 miles14
Little Creek4.3 miles14
Old Tallapoosa5.3 miles14
Hooper6.1 miles15
Tallapoosa6.1 miles15
Dugdown6.5 miles14
Abernathys Mill6.9 miles16
Tabernacle7.0 miles16

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 Q122570626The 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 350726. 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.