Cabaniss, Georgia
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Forsyth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31029. It stands on Mill Dam Creek. The Survey maps it on the Indian Springs quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1951 USGS Forsyth quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Indian Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
220 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Cabaniss between 1992 and 2020, burning about 872 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 32 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 | 116 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 14 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-MONROE-012 |
| 1 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019MONROE001 |
| 9 August 2000 | Natural | 17 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-MONROE-012 |
| 7 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Cabaniss: 5 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westbrooks Prospect | Mica, Feldspar | Prospect | ||
| Arnall Prospect | Mica | Occurrence | ||
| C M Sutton Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Coleman Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| E B Butler Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| E J Goggins Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Marie Vaughn Deposit | Mica | Occurrence | ||
| Smith Mine | Mica | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cabaniss in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cabaniss | $5,000 | Em reports tree down several trees down between ga42 and ga 23 and just north of stokes store rd. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cabaniss | $1,000 | Tree on powerline along Blue Ridge School Rd. |
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.
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 Cabaniss | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q54888641 | 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 354931. 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.
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.







