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Banning Mills, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Whitesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30185. It stands on Guthrie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hulett quadrangle.

Banning Mills within Carroll County

On record in Banning Mills

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Banning Mills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 690 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 55 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 burning89
Arson/incendiarism55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2

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
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CARROLL-009
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll 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 Banning Mills: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jones Mill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Banning Mills in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 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
June 2013Flash FloodBanning Mills$3,000Several farm ponds in the southeast area of Carroll County overflowed causing minor erosion damage to the dams and briefly flooding nearby roads downstream.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindBanning Mills$1,000Tree down across roadway on 200 block of Old Five Notch Rd.

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Banning1.0 miles16
Dingler Crossroads1.4 miles16
Whitesburg2.3 miles10
Emily (historical)2.9 miles16
Byers Crossroads3.3 miles17
Cross Plains3.5 miles16
Clem4.7 miles16
Lang (historical)5.5 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122551252The 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 354452. 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.