Burning Bush, Georgia

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Boynton Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30736. It stands on Blue Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the East Ridge quadrangle.

Burning Bush within Catoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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.

1886 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Catoosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1892 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1935 USGS East Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS East Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS East Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS East Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS East Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1982 USGS East Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

437 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 437 fires within 5 miles of Burning Bush between 1992 and 2020, burning about 539 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 50 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	232
Equipment and vehicle use	60
Arson/incendiarism	50
Misuse of fire by a minor	26
Smoking	26
Recreation and ceremony	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Natural	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CATOOSA-006
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CATOOSA-007
5 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park	HAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burning Bush in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2009	Flood	Burning Bush	$2,000	A survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia determined that flooding occurred on the West Chickamauga Creek, the South Chickamauga Creek, and Peavine Creek. All of these creeks overflowed their banks and caused minor flooding of adjacent low-lying areas, woodlands, and fields. The Catoosa County News reported that the Battlewood Apartments off Fant Drive were threatended by flood waters. Residents of the apartment complex were evacuated as a precaution, but no damage to property occurred. Overall, damage was limited to debris removal.

Every storm recorded in Catoosa 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
Post Oak	0.8 miles	28
Blue Spring	1.6 miles	28
Boynton	2.1 miles	28
Red Belt	2.8 miles	28
East Boynton	2.9 miles	28
Ellie Spring	3.1 miles	28
Dietz	3.2 miles	28
Scenic Hills	3.4 miles	28

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 Burning Bush	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19874403	The 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 331288. 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.