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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.

Twin Lakes within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

390 since 1992

Regional 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 burning212
Arson/incendiarism99
Smoking26
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7

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
9 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-LOWNDES-002
28 September 1996Smoking4.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes County

Storms near this place

12 since 2014

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2014Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes$5,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in the Twin Lakes area.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes$1,000A line was blown down at 5918 Seville Drive.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes$1,000A power line was blown down at 401 Francis Drive in Lake Park.
April 2024Flash FloodTwin Lakes-Water was running across Peggy Lane.
February 2023Flash FloodTwin Lakes-Twin Lakes Road was closed due to flooding between the 4600 and 4800 block.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes-A tree was blown down onto 4-H Club Road.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes-A line was blown down at 5495 Danieli Drive.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes-A tree was blown down at 5135 Granada St.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes-Trees were blown down in the Lake Park area.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindTwin Lakes-Trees were down on the railroad tracks between Lake Park and Dasher.
April 2021HailTwin Lakes-no account filed
April 2021HailTwin Lakes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lowndes 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
Lake Park1.7 miles7
Herring2.5 miles7
Dasher3.6 miles7
Melrose5.3 miles7
Newsome5.6 miles6
Briggston5.6 miles10
Clyattville5.8 miles10
Old Clyattville6.1 miles10

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 LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65050675The 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.