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Alexanders Mill, Georgia

23 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 stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blairsville quadrangle.

Alexanders Mill within Towns County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Alexanders Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,287 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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 burning154
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism24
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
20 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceHICHORY RIDGE
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 1998Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Towns County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Alexanders Mill: 13 prospects, 6 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Kyanite, 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
Bumgarner ProspectClayProspect
Warne-Sylva Kyn BeltKyaniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
BrownGoldProspectVein
Chastian Placer MineGoldPast Producer
E.R. Brown MineGoldProspectVein
Gum Log/J.H. Brown/Brown/Placer MinesGoldPast ProducerVein
Horse VeinGoldOccurrence
Horse VeinGoldProspectVein
Hunt MineGoldProspectVein
Kerby ProspectGoldProspectVein

Every working recorded in Towns County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alexanders Mill in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2006HailAlexanders Mill$160,000The public reported quarter to golf-ball sized hail. This was the third hail storm to affect the county during the same evening.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAlexanders Mill$15,000The Towns County 911 Center reported that between three and four dozen trees were down across the county, especially the northern portions.
May 2006HailAlexanders Mill-Numerous reports of hail, ranging in size from pennies to quarters, were received from the public. The public reported that penny-sized hail covered the ground in the Alexanders Mill area along Georgia Highway 66 northwest of Young Harris. Penny-sized hail was reported in Young Harris, while quarter-sized hail was reported in Hiawassee. This was the second significant hail storm to affect Towns county within a one-hour period.

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
Welch0.2 miles23
Gumlog2.9 miles23
Young Harris3.4 miles24
Campagne (historical)3.4 miles24
Red Banks3.7 miles24
Jacksonville4.1 miles24
Cedar Cliff4.7 miles24
Friendship5.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122568645The 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 351227. 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.