Twin Lakes, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Lake Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31636. The Survey maps it on the Lake Park quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Lake Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Lake Park quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
390 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 390 fires within 5 miles of Twin Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,451 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 99 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 | 212 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 99 |
| Smoking | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-LOWNDES-002 |
| 28 September 1996 | Smoking | 4.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin Lakes in 12 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | $5,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down in the Twin Lakes area. |
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | $1,000 | A line was blown down at 5918 Seville Drive. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | $1,000 | A power line was blown down at 401 Francis Drive in Lake Park. |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Twin Lakes | - | Water was running across Peggy Lane. |
| February 2023 | Flash Flood | Twin Lakes | - | Twin Lakes Road was closed due to flooding between the 4600 and 4800 block. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | - | A tree was blown down onto 4-H Club Road. |
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | - | A line was blown down at 5495 Danieli Drive. |
| February 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | - | A tree was blown down at 5135 Granada St. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | - | Trees were blown down in the Lake Park area. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Lakes | - | Trees were down on the railroad tracks between Lake Park and Dasher. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Twin Lakes | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Twin Lakes | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Park | 1.7 miles | 7 | |
| Herring | 2.5 miles | 7 | |
| Dasher | 3.6 miles | 7 | |
| Melrose | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Newsome | 5.6 miles | 6 | |
| Briggston | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Clyattville | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Old Clyattville | 6.1 miles | 10 |
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 Twin Lakes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65050675 | 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 346358. 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.





