Uptonville, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Folkston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31537. It stands on Little Spanish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newell quadrangle.

Uptonville within Charlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1918 USGS Folkston quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Newell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

280 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Uptonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,706 acres in total. 78 started naturally. 29 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	96
Natural	78
Railroad operations and maintenance	36
Arson/incendiarism	29
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHARLTON-011
7 September 1999	Natural	110 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHARLTON-013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlton County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uptonville in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Uptonville	$1,000	Large trees were blown down along US 1.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Uptonville	-	Trees and power lines were blown down near Grace Chapel Church by Spanish Creek Road.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Uptonville	-	Power lines were blown down along Old US Highway 1.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Uptonville	-	Trees were blown down and blocking the road near Winokur Road. The time of damage was based on radar.
October 2008	Hail	Uptonville	-	Penny size hail occurred in Uptonville. A power line was also blown down along Dixie Union Highway through Uptonville.

Every storm recorded in Charlton 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
Mattox	1.5 miles	10
Paxton	3.5 miles	11
Newell	3.8 miles	10
Homeland	3.9 miles	11
Cypress Siding	5.2 miles	10
Silver Hill	5.3 miles	10
Petersons (historical)	5.5 miles	10
Folkston	5.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333314. 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.