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Towalaga, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Towalaga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30223. It stands on Thompson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Luella quadrangle.

Towalaga within Spalding County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

328 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Towalaga between 1992 and 2020, burning about 828 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 61 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 burning190
Arson/incendiarism61
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 1997Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-SPALDING-001
30 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-SPALDING-011
18 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-SPALDING-010
16 September 2011Arson/incendiarism10 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-SPALDING-009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spalding 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 Towalaga: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite. 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
The Turner QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Spalding County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Towalaga in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001Thunderstorm WindTowalaga$5,000The Griffin Daily News reported that trees and power lines were blown down in many areas of the county. A number of roads were blocked by fallen trees or tree limbs and in some cases power lines. In addition, Interstate 75 was backed up for miles because of a fallen tree at mile marker 207.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTowalaga$1,500The Spalding County 911 Center reported several trees were blown down especially across the northern portion of the county.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindTowalaga$1,000A tree fell onto a home on W Teamon Circle.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindTowalaga$1,000A tree fell onto a home in the 1700 block of North Mcdonough Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindTowalaga-Emergency manager reported that the roof was taken off of a barn near the intersection of Hwy 155 and Johnson Rd.
May 2025Tornado (EF0)Towalaga-An EF1 tornado touched down in extreme northeastern Spalding|county along Old McDonough road near Johnson Road early Wednesday|morning around 339 AM EDT May 21 2025. The tornado knocked over|a few trees on the west side of Hwy 155 before crossing the hwy|and ripping off the roof to a large barn. Two people were asleep|in a camping trailer near the barn when the tornado hit. They|claimed the camper lifted off the ground and slammed down|breaking the jacks supporting the front end of the camper. |Additionally roof material from the nearby barn slammed into the|camper and was spread eastward into a field area. The tornado|continued east crossing Amelia Drive snapping trees before|crossing into Henry County.
April 2016HailTowalaga-A report was received on social media of nickel size hail near Griffin.
June 2007HailTowalaga-The public reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Spalding 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
Pleasant Grove2.3 miles10
Walker Mill3.5 miles10
Steeles Mill3.6 miles10
Pomona4.2 miles9
Caruso4.5 miles9
Highland Mills4.8 miles9
Sunny Side4.9 miles9
East Griffin5.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333249. 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.