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Burnt Hickory Farms, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Paulding census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30132. It stands on Goodwin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Burnt Hickory Ridge quadrangle.

Burnt Hickory Farms within Paulding County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

240 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Burnt Hickory Farms between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,299 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 105 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
Arson/incendiarism105
Debris and open burning84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3

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
8 September 1993Debris and open burning15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020PAULDING004
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism141 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Paulding County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Burnt Hickory Farms: 10 prospects, 5 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Mica, Feldspar. 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
Cochran PropertyManganeseProspect1918
Fred Dukes ProspectSulfurProspect
Puckett PropertyIron, ManganesePast Producer1919
Turner ProspectMica, FeldsparProspect
Unnamed Barium DepositBarium-BariteOccurrence
Kelly Iron MineIronPast Producer
Land Lot 1124IronPast Producer
Unnamed Iron DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed Iron DepositIronOccurrence
Dunaway MineGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Paulding 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
Burnt Hickory Ridge Estates1.1 miles18
Crowville2.5 miles18
Westfork3.4 miles18
Cedar Ridge3.4 miles18
Cross Road Farms3.9 miles18
Picketts Creek4.1 miles18
Cedar Crest Plantation4.1 miles24
Braswell Corners4.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 349794. 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.