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Allatoona Beach, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Emerson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30121. The Survey maps it on the Acworth quadrangle.

Allatoona Beach within Bartow County

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.

Fires near this place

324 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 324 fires within 5 miles of Allatoona Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,380 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 159 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
Arson/incendiarism159
Debris and open burning85
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Recreation and ceremony20
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural4
Smoking3

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 1993Debris and open burning29 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BARTOW-008
29 September 1993Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1997Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 160 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 160 workings within 5 miles of Allatoona Beach: 70 occurrences, 53 past producers, 19 unknowns, 15 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Barium-Barite, 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
AllatoonaTitaniumOccurrence
Bartow No 2 MineGraphite, IronPast Producer
Allatoona VeinGold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Avery MineGold, SilverProspectVein
Pumpkinvine Creek DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pumpkinvine Creek Dredge No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Graphite MineGraphitePast Producer
Woodward ProspectGraphiteProspect
AbramsonIron, ManganeseUnknown1954
ApexIron, ManganeseUnknown1954

Every working recorded in Bartow 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
Allatoona0.3 miles24
Indian Village1.3 miles24
Iron Hill2.2 miles24
Bartow2.3 miles24
Homestead Acres2.4 miles24
Sequoyah Estates2.5 miles24
Emerson2.8 miles19
Mountain Ridge Estates2.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122593226The 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 334228. 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.