Tusculum, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Guyton-Springfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31312. The Survey maps it on the Egypt quadrangle.

Tusculum within Effingham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1919 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1939 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

279 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Tusculum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,465 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 50 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	169
Arson/incendiarism	50
Natural	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	2

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
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	7.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020EFFINGHAM007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Effingham County

Storms near this place

12 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tusculum in 12 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Tusculum	$5,000	Trees and power lines downed. GA Highway 17 closed at Clark Rroad.
November 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tusculum	$5,000	The Effingham County Warning Point reported several trees down at the intersection of Porter Road and Highway 17, 4 miles west northwest of Springfield.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Tusculum	$4,000	Broadcast Media reported trees and power lines down near the Griffin Lakes area.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Tusculum	$3,000	The Effingham County Warning Point reported that several trees were blown down onto Highway 17 between Tusculum Road and Griffin Lake Road.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Tusculum	$1,000	The Effingham 911 call center relayed a report of one tree down near the intersection of Highway 17 and Springfield Tusculum Road.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tusculum	$1,000	A dispatch center reported a tree down on Highway 17 North near Harry Lindsay Road.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Tusculum	$1,000	Law enforcement reported a tree down and blocking both lanes of Highway 17.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Tusculum	$500	A picture was posted on social media of a large tree limb blown down near Griffin Lake.
April 2017	Hail	Tusculum	-	A trained spotter reported nickel size hail lasting 3-4 minutes on Georgia Highway 21.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Tusculum	-	The Effingham County 911 Call Center reported multiple trees down at the 4000 block of Springfield Egypt Road.
July 2013	Hail	Tusculum	-	The Shawnee Fire Department reported quarter size hail.
May 2007	Hail	Tusculum	-	Hail fell at Griffin Lake Campground.

Every storm recorded in Effingham 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
Lorenzo	4.2 miles	16
Bethel	4.3 miles	16
Guyton	4.4 miles	16
Egypt	5.3 miles	16
Shawnee	5.8 miles	16
Springfield	6.5 miles	16
Spring Branch	6.7 miles	16
Ardmore	7.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326565. 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.