Young Harris, Georgia
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Young Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30582. It lies near Sharp Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hiawassee quadrangle. 1,098 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,923 feet above sea level.
On record in Young Harris
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
Young Harris College Historic Districtlisted 1983
Population over time
3 figuresYoung Harris grew from 604 to 1,098 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 604 | |
| 2010 | 899 | +295 (+49%) |
| 2020 | 1,098 | +199 (+22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1896 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
- 1903 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1935 USGS Hiawassee quadrangle1:24000
- 1941 USGS Hiawassee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Hiawassee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Hiawassee quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Hiawassee quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
Photographs
8 photographs, 2017Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
211 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Young Harris between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,183 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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 | 151 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | IVY LOG GAP |
| 17 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2014-UNION-001 |
| 16 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-TOWNS-001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Young Harris: 5 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Corundum, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hog Creek Corundum Mine | Corundum | Past Producer | ||
| Mcconell Estate | Manganese | Past Producer | 1919 | |
| E.R. Brown Mine | Gold | Prospect | Vein | |
| Kerby Prospect | Gold | Prospect | Vein | |
| Killian Mine | Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Lot 184 Mine | Gold | Unknown | Vein | |
| Malden Prospect | Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Murdock Vein Mine | Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Placer Mine | Gold | Prospect | Vein | |
| Ross Mine | Gold | Unknown | Vein |
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Young Harris in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Hail | Young Harris | $5,000 | The public reported golf ball to baseball size hail in Young Harris. Up to one and a half inch diameter hail was reported in Hiawassee. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Young Harris | - | The public observed quarter-sized hail in Young Harris. WSR-88D radar data suggests that penny to quarter-size hail likely continued eastward across the county toward Titus. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Young Harris | - | Several reports of hail ranging in size from pennies to quarters were received from the public in the Young Harris and Hiawassee areas. Hail was reported to have covered the ground at one location in Young Harris. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Young Harris | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville | 1.2 miles | 24 | |
| Welch | 3.2 miles | 23 | |
| Alexanders Mill | 3.4 miles | 23 | |
| Campagne (historical) | 3.5 miles | 24 | |
| Sunnyside | 3.7 miles | 24 | |
| Red Banks | 3.8 miles | 24 | |
| Friendship | 3.8 miles | 24 | |
| Cedar Cliff | 4.3 miles | 24 |
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 Young Harris | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2806081 | The 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 356657. 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.











