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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.

Cabaniss within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

220 since 1992

Regional 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 burning116
Arson/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Smoking11
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
30 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MONROE-012
1 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019MONROE001
9 August 2000Natural17 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-MONROE-012
7 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Westbrooks ProspectMica, FeldsparProspect
Arnall ProspectMicaOccurrence
C M Sutton ProspectMicaProspect
Coleman ProspectMicaProspect
E B Butler ProspectMicaProspect
E J Goggins ProspectMicaProspect
Marie Vaughn DepositMicaOccurrence
Smith MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2025Thunderstorm WindCabaniss$5,000Em reports tree down several trees down between ga42 and ga 23 and just north of stokes store rd.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCabaniss$1,000Tree on powerline along Blue Ridge School Rd.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Berner2.7 miles14
Logwall4.6 miles14
Blount4.6 miles14
Juliette5.3 miles13
Box Ankle5.6 miles14
Percale6.3 miles13
Maynard6.8 miles14
Higgins Mill6.8 miles11

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 CabanissAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888641The 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.