Ball Ground, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Casey Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30705. It stands on Little Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Calhoun NE quadrangle.

Ball Ground within Murray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1886 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1949 USGS Calhoun quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Calhoun quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Calhoun NE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

396 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 396 fires within 5 miles of Ball Ground between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,688 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 96 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	209
Arson/incendiarism	96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	5

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 2006	Debris and open burning	9.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray 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 Ball Ground: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cohutta Talc Mine	Talc-Soapstone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Murray 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
Wells (historical)	0.6 miles	19
Coniston	2.9 miles	19
Ramhurst	3.5 miles	19
Holley	3.7 miles	19
Bloodtown	4.2 miles	19
Dennis	4.4 miles	19
Carters	4.6 miles	19
Chatsworth	7.9 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1705474. 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.