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Beasley Gap, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Waleska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30183. It lies near Garland Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Waleska quadrangle.

Beasley Gap within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

211 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Beasley Gap between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,032 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 72 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 burning86
Arson/incendiarism72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5

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 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BARTOW-024
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Beasley Gap: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Flagstone, Stone. 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
H & M QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Upshire QuarryStonePast Producer
Jerusalem QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Pine Log QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Bennett MineIronPast Producer
Jj Bennett Property Mine-Lot 296Iron, ManganesePast Producer
No Name-Lot 317 MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Unnamed Manganese DepositManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed Manganese DepositManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed Manganese Mine Lot 296ManganesePast Producer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Salacoa3.0 miles19
Waleska3.3 miles20
Greely4.0 miles19
Burris Crossroads6.0 miles22
Sharp Top6.1 miles22
Worley Crossroads7.4 miles21
Sutallee8.8 miles22
North Canton9.1 miles20

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 Q122559624The 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 331114. 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.