Tarversville, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the South Twiggs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31044. The Survey maps it on the Tarversville quadrangle.

Tarversville within Twiggs County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 Jeffersonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Tarversville quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Tarversville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,517 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 30 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	143
Arson/incendiarism	30
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Smoking	15
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-TWIGGS-001
5 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BLECKLEY-014
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TWIGGS005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Twiggs County

Storms near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tarversville in 8 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Tarversville	$50,000	A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 MPH and a maximum path width of 100 yards occurred in southern Twiggs County. The tornado began along Bruce King Road west of Longstreet Road and travelled northeast for a little over 4 miles crossing Carey Road before ending along Bruce Richardson Road. Around 100 trees were downed along the path of this tornado and a section of a large irrigation system was overturned. [01/21/17: Tornado #13, County #1/1, EF0, Twiggs, 2017:014].
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarversville	$25,000	Emergency manager reported over 20 trees and some power lines down on Albert Jenkins Rd to the south of GA Hwy 129.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarversville	$7,000	The Twiggs County 911 center reported numerous trees blown down along Highway 96 around the intersection with Highway 87.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarversville	$3,000	Four to five trees and limbs were blocking portions of Georgia Highway 96 west of Tarversville.
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarversville	$2,000	The Twiggs County Emergency Management Director reported that a number of trees, at least 10, were down in the southern part of the county, especially along and near Georgia Highway 96 from Tarversville to Danville.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarversville	$1,000	The Twiggs County 911 Center reported that four trees were down in the Tarversville area.
May 1998	Hail	Tarversville	$1,000	The public reported from pea to golf ball size hail at the intersection of highways 96 and 87.
April 1993	Hail	Tarversville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Twiggs 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
Mount Olive	4.1 miles	10
Westlake	4.2 miles	10
Mount Calvary	5.4 miles	10
District Path	6.0 miles	10
Bullard	6.9 miles	11
Marion	8.4 miles	11
Danville	11.3 miles	8
Jeffersonville	11.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356583. 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.