Unity, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Carnesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30521. The Survey maps it on the Red Hill quadrangle.

Unity within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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.

1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Red Hill quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Unity between 1992 and 2020, burning about 357 acres in total. 8 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	93
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	1

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
3 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-011
28 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN005
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-008
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1997	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 Franklin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Unity in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 3 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
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Unity	-	Public reported numerous trees snapped and power lines blown down along Highway 320.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Unity	-	NWS co-op observer reported a tree blown down near the intersection of Highways 59 and 198. County comms reported a tree blown down on Bold Springs Rd.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Unity	-	Numerous trees and power poles were uprooted and snapped off across the county, with the worst damage occurring in the eastern part of the county from Franklin Springs to Royston. At least one tree fell on a home.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Walnut Hill (historical)	1.6 miles	14
Plainview	1.8 miles	14
Ashland	3.8 miles	14
Vandiver	4.2 miles	13
Carnesville	4.8 miles	15
Red Hill	5.3 miles	13
Parhams	5.7 miles	15
Prospect	5.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333310. 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.