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Beech Cove Vista, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hiawassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30546. It stands on Allen Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Macedonia quadrangle.

Beech Cove Vista within Towns County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

230 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Beech Cove Vista between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,504 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 26 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 burning148
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3

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
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestIVY RIDGE
18 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceSNEAKING CREEK
12 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TOWNS-001
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 1999Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Towns County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Beech Cove Vista: 4 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Iron-Pyrite, Corundum, Manganese. 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
Bell Mtn Silica MineSilicaPast Producer
Berrong Prospect (Johnson Copper Prospect)Copper, Iron-PyriteOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Cynth Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hog Creek Corundum MineCorundumPast Producer
Mcconell EstateManganesePast Producer1919
Eller MineGoldProspectPlacer
Skeet HooperGoldProspectPlacer
Wills Creek MineGoldPast ProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in Towns 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
Hiawassee1.2 miles24
Macedonia1.5 miles22
Sunnyside1.7 miles24
Presley2.0 miles22
Hunt (historical)2.4 miles24
Osborn2.5 miles22
Friendship3.0 miles24
Cedar Cliff4.1 miles24

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 Q122554436The 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 331123. 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.