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Cartersville, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ider census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35966. It lies near Atkins Gulf. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle.

Cartersville within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Cartersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,995 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 91 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/incendiarism91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined68
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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 2010Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-003
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-13
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Cartersville: 9 prospects, 8 occurrences, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, Clay. 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
Halloysite MineClayPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectSulfur-PyriteProspect
J.C.Mcelroy ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in DeKalb 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
Beulah0.5 miles23
Deer Head Cove1.5 miles23
Old Blevins Mill2.0 miles21
Gann Crossroad2.3 miles23
Yorks Mill3.8 miles21
Sulphur Springs4.4 miles23
Ider5.1 miles21
Shiloh5.3 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 163221. 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.