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Talmadge, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ludville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30139. It lies near Stripling Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Ludville quadrangle.

Talmadge within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

323 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Talmadge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,478 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 159 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/incendiarism159
Debris and open burning101
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking4

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
8 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LUMPKIN-003
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Talmadge: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Betz MineGoldPast Producer
H & M QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jerusalem QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Pine Log QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Talmadge in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2011Tornado (EF3)Talmadge$8,000,000A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia and the Cherokee County Emergency Management Director confirmed that the EF3 tornado that touched down in northern Bartow county, five miles northeast of Kingston and continued across extreme northwest Cherokee county, also continued into western Pickens county before lifting. The tornado tracked northeast across Pickens county, entering the county almost five miles west-southwest of Talmadge and lifting approximately two miles east of Hinton or seven miles west of Jasper. Within in Pickens county extensive damage was observed along Henderson Mountain Road and Bryant Road where several mobile homes were completely destroyed. There was at least one injury observed, but no fatalities in Pickens county as a result of this tornado.||Total damages in Pickens county consist of 26 homes and/or business destroyed, 15 with major damage, and 35 with minor damage for a total of 76 affected structures.||[04/27-04/28/11: Tornado #6, County #3-3, EF3, Bartow-Cherokee-Pickens, 2011:015].
August 2011Thunderstorm WindTalmadge$5,000The Pickens County 911 Center reported that seven large trees were down in the far southwest corner of the county near the Gordon county line. Several of these trees were down in power lines with a small subdivision located in this region of the county. WSR-88D radar data suggests that damage may well have occurred in southeast Gordon county as well, but no reports of damage were received from that area.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindTalmadge$3,000Power poles broken at Davis Rd W and GA 53 W.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindTalmadge$2,000The Pickens County 911 Center reported that three trees and one power line were down in the far southern portion of the county between Talmadge and Tate near the Cherokee county line.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindTalmadge-Report of power pole down near the intersection of Hwy 53 and Edwards Rd.

Every storm recorded in Pickens 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
Jerusalem1.2 miles19
Ludville3.3 miles19
Hinton3.9 miles19
Scarecorn5.7 miles20
Blaine6.2 miles20
McDaniel6.2 miles19
Talking Rock7.3 miles20
Rober (historical)7.4 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326541. 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.