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Youth, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Loganville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30052. The Survey maps it on the Between quadrangle.

Youth within Walton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

185 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Youth between 1992 and 2017, burning about 400 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 26 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 burning96
Arson/incendiarism26
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Smoking11
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use5

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
9 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-WALTON-002
7 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WALTON-004
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2010Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WALTON-002
26 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2012Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-WALTON-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Storms near this place

25 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Youth in 25 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 21 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2021HailYouth$900,000The public reported hail the size of golf balls along Center Hill Church Road.
June 2021LightningYouth$50,000The Walton County Emergency Manager reported a house fire caused by lightning.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindYouth$15,000The Walton County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across the western side of the county from Center Hill Church Road to Cannon Farm Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindYouth$10,000Numerous trees and powerpoles down in the area between Randy Poynter Reservoir and Walnut Grove.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindYouth$10,000The Walton County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down onto a house on New Horizon Drive. No injuries were reported.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindYouth$10,000The Walton County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down across the northern portion of the county from Walnut Grove and Loganville to Monroe and Gratis.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindYouth$8,000The Walton County 911 center reported trees blown down from Sandy Creek Road and McCullers Road southwest of Loganville to Bullock Bridge Road northeast of Loganville.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindYouth$2,000Tree and powerlines down on northeast side of Walnut Grove between GA139 and Leone Ave.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindYouth$2,000Couple of trees down near Greystone Ct and Greystone Dr.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindYouth$1,000Emergency manager reports tree down near the intersection of center hill church road and gum creek lane.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindYouth$1,000Em reports tree down at steward lake rd and stewart rd.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindYouth$1,000Tree and wires down near the intersection of Gum Creek Church Road and Center Hill Church Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindYouth$1,000Power line downed on Wagon Trl off of Hwy 81.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindYouth$1,000Report of tree downed in roadway at Miller Bottom Rd and S Sharon Church Rd.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindYouth$1,000Emergency manager reported tree down at the intersection of Thompson Mill and Broadnax Mill roads, closing Thompson Mill.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindYouth-Tree and powerlines down near intersection of Broadnax Mill and Youth Jersey Rd.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindYouth-Tree down on home near intersection of River Falls View and Stewart Rd.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindYouth-Report of trees and powerlines down near intersection of Hwy 81 and Robertson Rd.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindYouth-Report of couple trees down on Youth Jersey Rd near intersections with Corinth Rd and Robertson Rd.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindYouth-Tree and powerlines down near intersection of Stewart Rd and Broadnax Mill Rd.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindYouth-Report of powerline down along Sandy Creek Rd between Sandy Creek Cir and Sandy Creek Ct.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindYouth-Emergency manager reported a tree fell on power pole, snapping it and bringing lines down onto front porch of home along the 5000 block of Center Hill Church Rd.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindYouth-Trees were downed onto two cars in the Youth Monroe Rd area.
June 2021HailYouth-The public reported hail the size of quarters at the Cedar Lakes Golf Club.
January 2010HailYouth-A CoCoRaHS observer reported quarter-sized hail just south of Loganville near Between in the western part of Walton county. The hail completely covered the ground and because of near freezing temperatures that followed subsequently as a cold front passed through the area, much of the hail remained on the ground overnight and into the next morning. Ground accumulation of hail was observed across a near 7-mile long stretch of road in this area the next morning.

Every storm recorded in Walton 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
Walnut Grove3.0 miles17
Split Silk3.1 miles16
Between3.4 miles16
Overlook Point4.1 miles16
Loganville4.4 miles16
Alcovy Mountain5.7 miles17
Jersey5.7 miles17
Windsor6.6 miles18

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 YouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65053024The 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 333488. 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.