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Bloodtown, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Chatsworth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30705. It stands on Mineral Springs Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ramhurst quadrangle.

Bloodtown 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.

Fires near this place

267 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Bloodtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,107 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 92 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 burning107
Arson/incendiarism92
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning22 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestCHICKEN CREEK
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-GORDON-015
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-GORDON-016
23 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloodtown in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBloodtown-Multiple trees down around Carter.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Carters1.2 miles19
Coniston1.3 miles19
Wells (historical)3.6 miles19
Ball Ground4.2 miles19
Dennis5.3 miles19
Ramhurst5.4 miles19
Holley7.9 miles19
Chatsworth10.6 miles21

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 Q122539109The 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 331191. 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.

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.