Tifton, Georgia

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Tift County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

• Tift County Courthouselisted 1980
• Tifton Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1986
• Tifton Residential Historic Districtlisted 2008
• Tifton Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1994

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Tifton Bridge, U.S. Route 82/State Route 50 over Seaboard Coastline Railroad, Tiftonfederal building survey, 9 photographs

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
• 1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1973 USGS Tifton West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 782 fires within 5 miles of Tifton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,163 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 162 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Unionville
• Ferry Lake
• Phillipsburg
• Brighton
• Pebblebrook
• Vanceville

Every fire recorded in Tift County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tifton in 87 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 42 thunderstorm wind, 28 hail, 5 flood, 4 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Tift County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 324159. 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.