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Amos Mill, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Trenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30738. It lies near Bible Gulf. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs quadrangle.

Amos Mill within Dade 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

302 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 302 fires within 5 miles of Amos Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,911 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 117 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 burning136
Arson/incendiarism117
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking3
Natural1

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
29 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150902-002
19 September 1993Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-011
15 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-DADE-004
14 September 2010Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-006
13 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minor4.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Amos Mill: 12 past producers, 9 prospects, 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, Stone, Dimension, 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
Southern Iron and Steel Co QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectSulfur-PyriteProspect
Bibble MineIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Blake's Mine Et Al.IronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
J.C.Mcelroy ProspectIronOccurrence
Ragon Mining Co. Battelle AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
UnnamedIronPast ProducerHematite
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dade County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amos Mill in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 2 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 2024Thunderstorm WindAmos Mill$1,000EM reported tree down at Old State Rd and ga157.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindAmos Mill-Tree down near intersection of Cloverdale Rd and Morgan Rd.

Every storm recorded in Dade 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
Cloverdale0.5 miles23
Sulphur Springs Station2.3 miles23
Rising Fawn3.0 miles23
Head River4.2 miles23
Plum Nelly5.4 miles25
Cedar Hill6.7 miles23
Stewart Town7.5 miles23
Tatum (historical)8.3 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331038. 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.