Turnerville, Georgia
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Turnerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30523. It stands on Little Panther Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tallulah Falls quadrangle. It stands 1,552 feet above sea level.
On record in Turnerville
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 1 record
- Glen-Ella Springs Hotellisted 1990
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 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.
- 1886 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1896 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Tallulah Falls quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
143 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Turnerville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 829 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 22 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 | 76 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Natural | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | Y CAMP |
| 12 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-HABERSHAM-001 |
| 28 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Turnerville: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nichols Placer | Gold | Past Producer | Stream Placer | |
| Panther Creek Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | Pyrrhotite |
Storms near this place
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turnerville in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2024 | Hail | Turnerville | - | Public reported quarter size hail. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turnerville | - | County comms reported multiple trees blown down in northern Habersham County. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turnerville | - | Multiple trees and large limbs were blown down in the Turnerville area. Also, the top of a chimney was blown off a home. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Turnerville | - | Heavy rain developed well ahead of the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay, resulting in flash flooding over the north-central part of the county. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Turnerville | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Turnerville | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Turnerville | - | no account filed |
| October 2002 | Hail | Turnerville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shirley Grove | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Tallulah Park (historical) | 2.5 miles | 19 | |
| Hollywood | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Tugaloo | 3.4 miles | 20 | |
| Tallulah Falls | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Anandale (historical) | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Midway | 5.0 miles | 18 | |
| Dixon Crossroads | 5.7 miles | 19 |
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 Turnerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18217534 | 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 356600. 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.






