BlockTignall, Georgia
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Tignall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30668. It stands on Pole Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tignall quadrangle. 485 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 627 feet above sea level.
On record in Tignall
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 2 records
- Gartrell Family Houselisted 2002
- Pharr-Callaway-Sethness Houselisted 1976
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Crawfordville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Tignall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
1 photograph,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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
101 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Tignall between 1992 and 2019, burning about 489 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 5 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 | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-WILKES-001 |
| 7 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Natural | 4.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-WILKES-002 |
| 17 September 1993 | Natural | 23 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-WILKES-003 |
| 5 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tignall: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Feldspar. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delhi Mine | Feldspar | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tignall in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Tignall | $1,500,000 | A damage assessment conducted by the Wilkes County Emergency Management Director indicated that an F1 tornado, briefly at the high end of the F1 scale, touched down just south of Tignall near Georgia Highway 17 and continued north from six to seven miles along or just west of Georgia Highway 17 to just north of Norman. The path width of the tornado was mostly between 100 and 200 yards, but briefly was up to 500 yards wide between Mallorysville and Georgia Highway 17. The tornado was believed to have been on the ground from 70 to 80 percent of the time along its path. Large trees were uprooted on six single-family dwellings in the Tignall area and several other dwellings were damaged in Norman. All together 23 structures sustained damage from the tornado, ranging from very minor to major. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down, twisted, or uprooted along the path, many causing additional damage to farm fences along the way. A large communications tower was also destroyed. Georgia Highway 17 was blocked in two places along the path by downed trees and three county dirt roads were also blocked along the path. At least 1000 residents in the area lost power and phone service during the event. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tignall | $3,000 | The Wilkes County 911 Center reported that numerous trees and power lines were blown down through the eastern portion of the county. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tignall | $3,000 | The Wilkes county Emergency Management Director reported that some trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tignall | $3,000 | The Wilkes county Emergency Management Director reported that several trees and some power lines were blown down along Georgia Highway 17 North between Tignall and Washington. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Tignall | $2,000 | A couple of public reports indicated golf ball size hail fell. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tignall | $1,000 | The Wilkes County Emergency Management Director reported that thunderstorm downburst winds blew some vinyl siding off a home and turned a camper on its side. Pea-sized hail was also observed in the area. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tignall | $500 | A few power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Tignall | - | The Wilkes County Emergency Manager reported quarter size hail in Tignall. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Tignall | - | The public reported nickel size hail. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Tignall | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy Hill | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Sandtown | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Armstrong (historical) | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Norman | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Danburg | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Delhi | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Bessie (historical) | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Cohentown | 5.2 miles | 13 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Tignall | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1885410 | 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 356591. 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.