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Whistleville, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Auburn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30680. The Survey maps it on the Bold Springs quadrangle. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Whistleville within Barrow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Whistleville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 426 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 40 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 burning73
Arson/incendiarism40
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
7 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GWINNETT NORTH-001
17 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarism7.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2008Natural3.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-BARROW-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barrow County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Whistleville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Barrow Stone CoStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Barrow County

Storms near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whistleville in 5 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWhistleville$12,000The Barrow County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown from north of Winder to near Statham.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWhistleville$10,000The Barrow County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and power lines blown down from Northwest of Winder to Statham.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWhistleville$1,000A tree was reported down across Bill Rutledge Road near Matthews School Road.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindWhistleville$1,000The Barrow County 911 center reported a tree blown down at the intersection of Highway 53 and Rockwell Church Road.
February 2020Flash FloodWhistleville-The Emergency Manager reported that Cedar Creek was out of its banks, flowing over Rockwell Church Road and Moon's Bridge Road. Radar estimates indicate that 2.5 to 5 inches occurred over the area, falling on already wet soils and resulting in flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Barrow 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
Carl1.7 miles15
Barrow Heights2.1 miles17
Cedar Hill2.2 miles15
Auburn2.7 miles15
Winder3.3 miles17
Russell4.5 miles17
Algernon (historical)4.9 miles15
Mulberry5.0 miles15

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 WhistlevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28950239The 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 333408. 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.