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Alpine, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Menlo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30731. The Survey maps it on the Lyerly quadrangle.

Alpine within Chattooga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

585 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 585 fires within 5 miles of Alpine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,426 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 394 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/incendiarism394
Debris and open burning126
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2
Other causes1
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
9 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CHATTOOGA005
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burning5.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarism3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattooga County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Alpine: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: not recorded. 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
Dirseller Mt. Area-BPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chattooga County

Storms near this place

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alpine in 5 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindAlpine$20,000The Chattooga County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down across the county from just south of Menlo near the intersection of Highway 337 and Oak Hill Road to the west side of Trion on Tate Road, India Drive and Back Penn Road. A home on India Drive had minor damage to its roof.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindAlpine$3,000The Chattooga County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down on Oak Hill Alpine Road and on Highway 100 near Lyerly Dam Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAlpine$2,000Tree and powerlines down at Oak Hill Rd and Mosley Springs Rd.
March 2021Flash FloodAlpine-The Emergency Manager reported high water conditions on Alpine Creek inundated Buck Gardner Road and Peach Orchard Road. Radar estimates indicate that rainfall in the area ranged between 4 and 6 inches, resulting in the flash flooding.
March 2021Flash FloodAlpine-The Emergency Manager reported water over Oak Hill Alpine Road due to high water from Alpine Creek. Radar estimates indicate that rainfall in the area ranged between 3 and 5 inches, resulting in the flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Chattooga 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
Menlo2.2 miles17
Mineral Springs (historical)2.3 miles17
Fairview (historical)3.6 miles17
Perennial4.0 miles17
Cloudland4.1 miles24
Chelsea5.4 miles24
Berryton5.6 miles17
Lyerly5.9 miles17

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 AlpineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q39050849The 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 331030. 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.