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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.

Young Harris within Towns County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Young 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.

YearPeople Change
2000604
2010899+295 (+49%)
20201,098+199 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

8 photographs, 2017

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.

Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
The Happy Goat Trading Company, which offers a religious message along with eclectic rural items, near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
The Happy Goat Trading Company, which offers a religious message along with eclectic rural items, near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Part of Sleepy Hollow, a whimsical fairy village, garden, and gift shop near the settlement of Young Harris in Towns County, Georgia, near the North Carolina line
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

211 since 1992

Regional 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 burning151
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestIVY LOG GAP
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-UNION-001
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TOWNS-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Towns County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hog Creek Corundum MineCorundumPast Producer
Mcconell EstateManganesePast Producer1919
E.R. Brown MineGoldProspectVein
Kerby ProspectGoldProspectVein
Killian MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Lot 184 MineGoldUnknownVein
Malden ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Murdock Vein MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Placer MineGoldProspectVein
Ross MineGoldUnknownVein

Every working recorded in Towns County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998HailYoung Harris$5,000The 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 2011HailYoung 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 2006HailYoung 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 2006HailYoung Harris-The public reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Towns 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
Jacksonville1.2 miles24
Welch3.2 miles23
Alexanders Mill3.4 miles23
Campagne (historical)3.5 miles24
Sunnyside3.7 miles24
Red Banks3.8 miles24
Friendship3.8 miles24
Cedar Cliff4.3 miles24

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 HarrisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2806081The 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.