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Bolivar, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the White-Pine Log census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30171. It stands on Sugar Hill Creek. The Survey maps it on the White East quadrangle.

Bolivar within Bartow 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

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Bolivar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,587 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 79 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 burning100
Arson/incendiarism79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking1

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 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BARTOW-024
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Arson/incendiarism15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Bolivar: 15 past producers, 6 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, 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
Bluff MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Funkhouser Co QuarryClayPast Producer
Upshire QuarryStonePast Producer
Aggregate QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
CollinsIron, ManganeseUnknown1919
P M Tate MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pauper FarmIron, ManganeseUnknown1915
Rob Shinall QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sugar HillIron, ManganeseUnknown1954
Aubrey MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bartow 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
Funkhouser1.3 miles19
Pine Log2.2 miles20
Rydal2.4 miles20
Gum Springs4.0 miles19
Sugar Hill (historical)4.3 miles20
Dewey Crossroads5.1 miles19
Sophia (historical)5.8 miles19
White6.3 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.

Wikipedia article on BolivarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19867939The 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 331204. 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.