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Burris Crossroads, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Ball Ground census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30114. The Survey maps it on the Ball Ground West quadrangle.

Burris Crossroads within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

289 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 289 fires within 5 miles of Burris Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 536 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 72 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 burning140
Arson/incendiarism72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Smoking19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHEROKEE-004
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-CHEROKEE-007
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Burris Crossroads: 7 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Mica, Talc-Soapstone, Beryllium. 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
Brady MineTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Denson MinesMica, BerylliumPast Producer
Bennett MineMicaPast Producer
Cagle MineMicaPast Producer
J F Carney ProspectMicaProspect
Chattahoochee Iron PropertyIronPast Producer
Cherokee Iron MineIronPast ProducerResidual
Cherokee Iron MineIronPast Producer
G.I.Teasley PropertyIronOccurrence
G.P. Mcfarland PropertyIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Sharp Top2.3 miles22
Worley Crossroads3.6 miles21
Waleska3.6 miles20
Keithsburg4.3 miles22
Gober4.6 miles22
Ball Ground5.9 miles22
North Canton6.0 miles20
Beasley Gap6.0 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.

Wikidata item Q122541113The 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 331290. 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.