Anon, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vesta-Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30648. The Survey maps it on the Rayle quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Anon within Oglethorpe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1906 USGS Crawfordville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Rayle quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Anon (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 594 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 12 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	50
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	4

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
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-OGLETHORPE-008
3 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2018	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019WILKES001
19 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WILKES-008
18 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oglethorpe County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Anon (historical): 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Latimer Mine (Fairy Ridge)	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Paulding County Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Harpers Quarry	Granite	Producer
Worley Monument Quarry	Granite	Producer

Every working recorded in Oglethorpe 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
Wise (historical)	2.4 miles	12
Palmetto	2.6 miles	13
Enterprise	4.6 miles	13
Fairview	4.9 miles	13
Vesta	6.1 miles	13
Veribest	6.4 miles	13
Hogan	6.9 miles	11
Saxon	8.3 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 335721. 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.