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Traders Hill, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the St. George census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31537. It stands on Spanish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Folkston quadrangle.

Traders Hill within Charlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

386 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 386 fires within 5 miles of Traders Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,592 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 70 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 burning171
Arson/incendiarism70
Natural58
Equipment and vehicle use35
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenance1.6 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTRACY ROAD (45)
18 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLAKE HAMPTON RD (45)
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Traders Hill: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals, REE, Titanium, Zirconium, Thorium. 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
Folkston ConcentratorREE, Titanium, Zirconium, ThoriumPast Producer
Humphreys Mining Co. - Boulogne MineTitanium-Heavy MineralsPast ProducerIlmenite, Rutile, Monazite, Zircon
Stuart Tract MineProducer
Trenncor MineProducer

Every working recorded in Charlton County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Traders Hill in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 2025Thunderstorm WindTraders Hill$1,000A large tree limb broke off and fell onto a house causing a hole in the | roof along Hamp Chesser Rd. The hole was | estimated to be big enough to stick an arm | through. A large pine tree was also down. | Time was estimated by radar. The cost was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
July 2019Heavy RainTraders Hill-The RAWs station at Okefenokee East measured a daily storm total rainfall of 2.75 inches.
July 2019Heavy RainTraders Hill-At 9 pm, the RAWs at Okefenokee East measured a daily rainfall total of 2.94 inches.
April 2017Funnel CloudTraders Hill-A spotter observed a funnel cloud along State Road 121.
August 2015Heavy RainTraders Hill-A RAWS site measured about 3.33 inches in about 2 hours.
May 2011HailTraders Hill-Penny size hail was reported at Tracy Ferry Road and the Okefenokee Parkway.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindTraders Hill-Trees were blown down on power lines off of State Road 121.

Every storm recorded in Charlton 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
Ferry Landing0.4 miles11
Stanley Landing1.7 miles11
Oakdale3.3 miles11
Folkston3.7 miles11
Layton4.3 miles17
Pinehurst4.4 miles17
Camp Pinkney (historical)4.9 miles17
Paxton5.3 miles11

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 Traders HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14686877The 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 326558. 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.