Bunker Hill, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Blairsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30512. It stands on Sawmill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mulky Gap quadrangle.

Bunker Hill within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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.

1888 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1911 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1935 USGS Mulky Gap quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Mulky Gap quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mulky Gap quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Mulky Gap quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

377 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 377 fires within 5 miles of Bunker Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 811 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 33 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 burning	266
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Arson/incendiarism	33
Smoking	14
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-UNION-001
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	COLWELL ROAD
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bunker Hill: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Coffee Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Coosa Creek Placer Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
No Name	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Union 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pleasant Grove	1.5 miles	23
Youngcane (historical)	1.5 miles	23
Rogers (historical)	2.5 miles	23
Jones Creek	3.0 miles	23
Notalee Orchards	3.6 miles	23
Otto (historical)	4.0 miles	23
Bethlehem	4.5 miles	23
Youngstown	4.7 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331283. 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.