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Barrettsville, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Blacks Mill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30534. It lies near Big Savannah. The Survey maps it on the Matt quadrangle. It stands 1,247 feet above sea level.

Barrettsville within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Barrettsville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 435 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 40 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 burning95
Arson/incendiarism40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural5
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3

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 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FORSYTH-002
13 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-DAWSON-003
1 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-DAWSON-002
28 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-DAWSON-001
28 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Barrettsville: 8 prospects, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica. 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
Harrison ProspectMicaProspect
Mcbrayer ProspectMicaProspect
BarrettGoldProspectVein
Barrett AuGoldProspectVein
CrawfordGoldProspectVein
HayesGoldProspectVein
Kim Mori MinesGoldPast ProducerVein
Kin Mori MineGoldPast Producer
LooperGoldPast ProducerVein
McguireGoldProspectVein Veined Zones

Every working recorded in Dawson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barrettsville in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBarrettsville$2,000Trees broken or split near the intersection of Old Kelly Farm and Kelly Bridge Rd.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBarrettsville$1,000The Dawson County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down southwest of Dawsonville.
April 2012HailBarrettsville-A Dawson County Official reported quarter sized hail at several locations across the southern portion of the county.

Every storm recorded in Dawson 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
Silver City2.2 miles19
Hubbardsville4.6 miles22
Dougherty5.7 miles18
Dawsonville6.0 miles18
Lumpkin6.4 miles19
McKee8.3 miles19
Landrum8.9 miles18
Juno9.6 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on BarrettsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28956979The 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 331097. 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.