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Warthen, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Warthen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31094. It stands on Alligator Branch. The Survey maps it on the Warthen quadrangle. 132 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Warthen within Washington County

On record in Warthen

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Harrison House, Georgia Highway 15 vicinity, Warthen, Washington County, GA
Harrison House, Georgia Highway 15 vicinity, Warthen, Washington County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Warthen between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,170 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 22 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 burning113
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural16
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2008Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Smoking3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-WASHINGTON-016
25 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-WASHINGTON-017
23 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-WASHINGTON-023

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Warthen: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Irwin MineKaolinProducer
Roughton MineKaolinProducer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warthen in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 5 hail, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWarthen$7,000The public reported that many trees and power lines were down across the county. One tree was down on a vehicle. Power outages were noted throughout much of the county. The wind damage was largely caused by an outflow boundary as an area of thunderstorms moved into the county from the north.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindWarthen$500The public reported several trees blown down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWarthen$250Personnel at the Warthen Post Office reported that a few tree limbs were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWarthen$250The Washington county 911 center reported that one tree was blown down.
April 2009HailWarthen-The public observed penny-sized hail in the far northern part of the county in the Hamburg State Park area.
June 2008HailWarthen-The Washington County Sheriff's Department observed nickel-sized hail around Warthen.
May 2006HailWarthen-Personnel at the Warthen Post Office observed penny-sized hail.
May 2005HailWarthen-The Washington County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail.
May 2002HailWarthen-The public reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Lindsey (historical)2.5 miles10
Sparks3.6 miles10
Chalker (historical)5.5 miles9
Kaolin6.6 miles11
Silas (historical)6.9 miles11
Downs7.3 miles10
Sandersville8.3 miles9
Tanner9.3 miles8

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 WarthenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12898258The 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 342360. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.