Turnwold, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31024. The Survey maps it on the Harmony quadrangle.

Turnwold within Putnam County

On record in Turnwold

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Turnwoldlisted 1980 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Harmony quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Turnwold between 1992 and 2020, burning about 891 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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	134
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Smoking	11
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
8 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-PUTNAM-006
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-PUTNAM-004
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-PUTNAM-007
24 September 1996	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turnwold in 2 storm reports in 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Turnwold	$1,000	A tree was blown down on Wards Chapel Rd near 16.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Turnwold	$1,000	Report of tree downed on River Bend Drive.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Phoenix	1.0 miles	10
Spivey (historical)	1.3 miles	12
Rockville	4.7 miles	11
Rudden	5.0 miles	12
Jefferson	5.1 miles	12
Glades Cross-Roads	6.3 miles	12
Harmony	6.4 miles	12
Eatonton	7.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347264. 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.

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.