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Toomsboro, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Toomsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31090. It stands on Edmonds Branch. The Survey maps it on the Toomsboro quadrangle. 383 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 233 feet above sea level.

Toomsboro within Wilkinson County

On record in Toomsboro

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

3 figures

Toomsboro fell from 622 to 383 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000622
2010472-150 (-24%)
2020383-89 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

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.

Jackson House, Georgia Highway 112, Toomsboro, Wilkinson County, GA
Jackson House, Georgia Highway 112, Toomsboro, Wilkinson County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Toomsboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 712 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 18 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 burning79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Smoking18
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burning11 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WILKINSON009
2 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WILKINSON007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Toomsboro: 7 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin, Aluminum, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Drill Prospect 4Aluminum, KaolinProspect
Kaolin MineKaolinPast Producer
Prim MineKaolinProducer
Shepherd MineAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
Cannon MineAluminumPast Producer
Cason MineAluminumPast Producer
Cason ProspectAluminumProspect
Freeman MineAluminumPast Producer
Nadine MineAluminumPast Producer
Old Dupont MineAluminumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wilkinson County

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toomsboro in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015Thunderstorm WindToomsboro1 killedA Macon television news station reported that a 12 year old boy was killed while camping when a large branch was blown out of the top of a tree landing on the tent where the boy and his family were fishing.
April 2017Tornado (EF0)Toomsboro$30,000A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF1 tornado briefly touched down in east central Wilkinson County near the intersections of Poplar Springs Church Road, Highway 112 and Club Drive. A single-wide trailer was shifted off its foundation with two people at home at the time. No injuries were reported. Another trailer had some loss of shingles and a collapsed carport. There were also nearby trees snapped. [04/03/17: Tornado #24, County #1/1, EF-1, Wilkinson, 2017:056].
June 2014Thunderstorm WindToomsboro$20,000Ham radio operators reported a tree on a house east of Toombsboro, as well as several additional trees down on Highway 57 near the Washington County line.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindToomsboro$8,000The Wilkinson County 911 center reported multiple trees and power lines blown down near Toomsboro.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindToomsboro$6,000The Wilkinson County 911 center reported trees and power lines blown down from around the intersection of Highway 57 and Branan Road southwest of Toomsboro to around the intersection of Club Road and Beaver Dam Road and around the intersection of Highway 112 and Old Balls Ferry Road south of Toomsboro.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindToomsboro$5,000The Wilkinson County 911 Center reported numerous trees and power lines down across the county.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindToomsboro$4,000The Wilkinson County 911 Center reported several trees blown down on Sheppard Street near the intersection of Highway 112 and Highway 57 in Toomsboro.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindToomsboro$4,000The Wilkinson County 911 Center reported trees blown down along Highway 57 east of Toomsboro.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindToomsboro$3,000Amateur radio operators relayed reports of numerous trees down in the Toomsboro area.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindToomsboro$3,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees and power lines.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindToomsboro$2,500The Wilkinson County 911 Center reported numerous trees down in Toomsboro.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindToomsboro$1,000The Wilkinson County 911 center reported a tree blown down on Old Balls Ferry Road near Highway 112.
December 2008FloodToomsboro$1,000The gage on the Oconee river at Oconee along the Washington/Wilkinson county line crested around 18.0 feet at 2 am EST December 14th. The river remained above the flood stage of 17.0 feet from mid-morning on December 13th until late afternoon on December 15th. At this stage, minor flooding of low land agricultural areas near the river occurs, as well as along the boat ramp near Georgia Highway 57. Damage was limited to minor debris cleanup.
January 2006Thunderstorm WindToomsboro$1,000The Wilkinson County Emergency Management Director reported that a few trees were blown down in the Toomsboro area.
March 2009FloodToomsboro$500Flooding was observed along the Oconee River at Oconee for several days. The river gage along the Washington/Wilkinson county line near the city of Oconee reached flood stage at 703 pm EST on March 2nd and remained above flood stage until 355 pm EST on March 7th. The river crested at 21.3 feet on March 4th at 400 am EST. Damage was confined to minor debris removal.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindToomsboro$500The Wilkinson County 911 Center reported that two trees were blown down.
April 2022HailToomsboro-Half dollar sized hail reported at the Dollar General in Toomsboro.
November 2018Flash FloodToomsboro-Emergency Manager reported water over C.T. Lord Highway, between Day Road and Highway 112. Radar estimates indicate that 4 to 5 inches of rainfall occurred over the area.
March 2003HailToomsboro-The U.S. Post Office in Toomsboro relayed a report of penny size hail.

Every storm recorded in Wilkinson 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Beech Hill3.7 miles12
Wriley4.4 miles13
Irwinton5.1 miles13
McIntyre6.1 miles13
Youngblood Corners (historical)7.1 miles12
Edgars7.2 miles13
Dedrich8.1 miles13
Mount Carmel (historical)8.8 miles12

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 ToomsboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2438825The 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 324226. 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.