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Brook Springs, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sandersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31082. It stands on Canal Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tabernacle quadrangle.

Brook Springs within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Brook Springs between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,023 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 12 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 burning92
Natural28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
6 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning7.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-WASHINGTON-005
30 September 2005Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WASHINGTON-015

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 77 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 77 workings within 5 miles of Brook Springs: 29 prospects, 28 producers, 14 past producers, 4 occurrences. 29 still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Clay, Aluminum, Kaolin, Aluminum. 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
Champion Paper and Fibre Co MineAluminumPast Producer
Georgia Kaolin No 1 MineAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
Thiel Kaolin Co MineAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
Anglo American MineClayProducer
Buffalo-China MineClayProducer
No. 5 Hale MineClayProducer
Scott Mine & PlantClayPlant
Veal MineClayProducer
Armstrong PitKaolinOccurrence
Avant Mine AKaolinProducer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Tabernacle1.6 miles8
Hebron2.8 miles8
Deepstep3.5 miles11
Goat Town3.8 miles11
Ennis4.6 miles8
Kaolin5.2 miles11
Sandersville7.2 miles9
Tennille7.5 miles9

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 Q122539527The 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 331241. 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.