Ticknor, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Doerun census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31744. The Survey maps it on the Doerun quadrangle.

Ticknor within Colquitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Doerun quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Doerun quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Ticknor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 862 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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	96
Arson/incendiarism	28
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	1
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	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colquitt County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ticknor in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
December 2022	Tornado (EF2)	Ticknor	$1,000,000	A tornado touched down in a field southwest of Doerun in Colquitt County and began to progress north northeast. The first damage occurred just north of the intersection of Mt. Sinai Road and Culbreth Road, where it caused roof and tree damage to a mobile home consistent with a high end EF-1. After hitting the mobile home, the tornado moved near the intersection of West Highway 270 and Herman Simmons Road where it would snap and uproot many trees resulting in high end EF-1 damage. It would then uproot a couple large oak trees and cause roof damage to a single family home consistent with EF-1 damage. The tornado would then continue to cross West Highway 270 where it would cause significant damage to a cotton gin facility. This was the maximum damage along the path, consistent with EF-2 intensity with max winds estimated near 120 mph. The tornado would then weaken rapidly as it continued northeast, uprooting and snapping more pine trees before dissipating in a field before the intersection of Ticknor Road and North Highway 133.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Ticknor	$5,000	Trees were down and several sheds were damaged near Doerun.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ticknor	$1,000	A tree was blown down on Mt Sinai Road.
June 2023	Hail	Ticknor	-	Softball sized hail was reported by the Doerun City Manager.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ticknor	-	A couple of trees were blown down near Highway 270 and Doerun.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ticknor	-	A large tree was snapped along Green Street near the train tracks in Doerun.
March 2024	Hail	Ticknor	-	no account filed
April 2021	Hail	Ticknor	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colquitt 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
Doerun	1.7 miles	9
Minnesota	2.3 miles	9
Terrace (historical)	4.0 miles	9
Sigsbee	6.5 miles	10
New Elm	7.1 miles	10
Hartsfield	8.3 miles	8
Schley	9.2 miles	9
Bay	9.9 miles	8

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 Q122539914

The 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 333230. 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.