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Stop, 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 30290. The Survey maps it on the Tyrone quadrangle.

Stop 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.

Fires near this place

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Stop between 1992 and 2019, burning about 692 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 31 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 burning75
Arson/incendiarism31
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Recreation and ceremony15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
4 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2014Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-FAYETTE-001
1 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burning24 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-COWETA-004
21 August 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-COWETA-007
17 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Stop: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension. 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
A.J. Mcelwaney QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Tyrone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tyrone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stop in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindStop$15,000The Fayette County Emergency Manager reported that a few trees and a few power lines were blown down between Highway 74 and Highway 85 between approximately Tyrone and Fayetteville. One tree fell on a barn, trapping a donkey inside.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindStop$7,000The Fayette County Emergency Management Director reported that at least a dozen trees were blown down just east of Tyrone and near Sandy Creek in the area of Tyrone Road, Dogwood Trail, Adams Road, and Sandy Creek Road. Several power lines were also brought down by the downed trees.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindStop$6,000The Fayette County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down from around the intersection of Farr Road and E. Crestwood Road in Tyrone to around the intersection of Highway 92 and Hickory Road in Fayetteville.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindStop$3,000A few trees were blown down from Tyrone to Sandy Creek according to reports received from an off-duty National Weather Service employee and a trained spotter.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindStop$1,000Wires were reported down on Tyrone Rd at Ellison Rd.
May 2025HailStop-Public reported 1.5i inch diameter hail in the River Crest neighborhood in Tyrone.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tyrone Acres0.6 miles9
Tyrone0.7 miles9
Briarwood Acres0.9 miles9
Briarhill0.9 miles9
Valleywood Corners1.0 miles9
Brookwood1.2 miles9
Kingsridge1.2 miles9
Graceland1.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326535. 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.