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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.

Turnerville within Habersham County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

143 since 1992

Regional 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 burning76
Arson/incendiarism22
Natural18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Natural3.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestY CAMP
12 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HABERSHAM-001
28 August 1997Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Habersham County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nichols PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Panther Creek ProspectIronOccurrencePyrrhotite

Every working recorded in Habersham County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2024HailTurnerville-Public reported quarter size hail.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindTurnerville-County comms reported multiple trees blown down in northern Habersham County.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindTurnerville-Multiple trees and large limbs were blown down in the Turnerville area. Also, the top of a chimney was blown off a home.
August 2008Flash FloodTurnerville-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 2012HailTurnerville-no account filed
May 2011HailTurnerville-no account filed
May 2006HailTurnerville-no account filed
October 2002HailTurnerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Habersham 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
Shirley Grove2.1 miles19
Tallulah Park (historical)2.5 miles19
Hollywood2.8 miles19
Tugaloo3.4 miles20
Tallulah Falls3.5 miles19
Anandale (historical)4.7 miles19
Midway5.0 miles18
Dixon Crossroads5.7 miles19

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 TurnervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18217534The 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.