Taylors Mill, Georgia

10 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 East quadrangle.

Taylors Mill within Peach 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 Fort Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Fort Valley East quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

392 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 392 fires within 5 miles of Taylors Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 768 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 41 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	228
Arson/incendiarism	41
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Natural	15
Recreation and ceremony	13
Smoking	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-PEACH-006
4 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Natural	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peach 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 Taylors Mill: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Powersville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Peach County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylors Mill in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2019: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Taylors Mill	$100,000	A National Weather Service survey team found that a tornado that began in Crawford County crossed into Peach County around Mossy Creek as it weakened back to EF1, downing or uprooting a number of trees along Taylors Mill Road. Pecan farming equipment was overturned and a farming shed was destroyed as the tornado crossed Vinson Road. The tornado lifted after downing pecan trees along Wesley Chapel Road. No injuries were reported in Peach County. [03/03/19: Tornado #1, County #2/2, EF1, Crawford, Peach, 2019:006].
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors Mill	$25,000	The public reported numerous trees blown down along Taylors Mill Road near the Crawford County line.

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
Biss	2.0 miles	10
Hartley	2.8 miles	11
Grogan	3.1 miles	11
Indian Oaks	3.5 miles	11
Ohio	3.5 miles	10
Valley Pines	3.6 miles	11
Fort Valley	3.7 miles	11
Peach Valley	3.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333199. 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.