Arnold Mill, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Woodstock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30188. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mountain Park quadrangle.

Arnold Mill within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1890 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Mountain Park quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Mountain Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

342 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 342 fires within 5 miles of Arnold Mill between 1992 and 2017, burning about 655 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 84 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	108
Arson/incendiarism	84
Misuse of fire by a minor	59
Railroad operations and maintenance	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Recreation and ceremony	15
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	10
Natural	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
9 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CHEROKEE-006
5 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Arnold Mill: 14 past producers, 5 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Iron, Manganese. 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
Bell-Star Mine	Iron, Manganese	Prospect	1918
Dean Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Delay Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Hause Mines	Mica	Past Producer
J D Hillhouse Mines	Mica	Past Producer
J V Ledford Mine	Mica	Past Producer
M M Cole Mine	Mica	Past Producer
R M Reece Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Wacaster Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Bailey Property	Gold	Past Producer	1840

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arnold Mill in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnold Mill	$15,000	The Cherokee County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down onto a house near the intersection of Heathland Drive and Heathland Court. No injuries were reported.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnold Mill	$15,000	The Cherokee County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down onto a house off Wiley Bridge Road.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnold Mill	$3,000	The Emergency Manager relayed reports of trees down in the area of Earney Road, including Earney Road at Old Country Place, and at a location along Plantation Trace.
January 2015	Flash Flood	Arnold Mill	$3,000	The stage height at a USGS stream gage on the Little River at Old Georgia Highway 5 near Woodstock reached flood stage of 11 feet. The river crest at 12.9 feet. Minor flooding occurred in the woodlands and fields along the river. A public boat ramp near the gage went under water. Low lying areas of the South Cherokee Recreation Park were flooded.
October 2009	Flood	Arnold Mill	$3,000	The USGS stream gage on the Little River near Woodstock reached its flood stage of 11 feet at 333 pm EDT. The Etowah River near East Canton reached its flood stage of 17 feet at 856 pm EDT. Flooding subsided after 0130 am EDT on the 13th. Damage was confined to minor debris removal adjacent to the rivers.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnold Mill	$1,000	Tree down near the intersection of arnold mill road and hendon road.
February 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnold Mill	$1,000	Tree down on Osco Parkway .
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnold Mill	$1,000	A tree was downed near the intersection of Batesville Rd and Sugar Pike Rd.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnold Mill	$250	The Cherokee County Emergency Manager reported a tree down blocking a road near the Forsyth County line.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnold Mill	-	Em reports tree down on structure along junalaska dr in tomahawk ga.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnold Mill	-	Trees and powerlines down along the 2700 block of Cox Road.
June 2020	Hail	Arnold Mill	-	The public reported hail the size of quarters to half dollars on John Ross Court.
June 2001	Hail	Arnold Mill	-	The Cherokee County 911 center reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Nowlin Hall	0.2 miles	23
Colony Woods	0.4 miles	23
Park Place Estates	0.5 miles	23
Driftwood Station	0.6 miles	23
Little River South	0.6 miles	23
Driftwood Forest	0.7 miles	23
Little River North	0.8 miles	23
Dobbs Estates	0.8 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1705087. 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.