Adamson, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Texas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30217. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frolona quadrangle.

Adamson within Heard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Frolona quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Adamson between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,443 acres in total. 6 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 burning	74
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	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
7 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Smoking	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HEARD-009
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HEARD-007
19 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Smoking	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Heard 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mason	1.5 miles	10
Texas	2.6 miles	11
Ridgeway	2.7 miles	11
Waresville	2.7 miles	11
Ridley	2.9 miles	11
Crain (historical)	3.6 miles	10
Frolona	3.9 miles	11
Viola	4.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331000. 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.