Cane Creek, Georgia

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.

• 1888 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
• 1898 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1911 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Campbell Mtn quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1950 USGS Campbell Mtn. quadrangle1:24000
• 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 478 fires within 5 miles of Cane Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,202 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 83 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Tube (historical)
• Buckhorn Tavern
• Jay (historical)
• Dahlonega
• Auraria
• Etowah (historical)

Every fire recorded in Lumpkin County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Cane Creek: 29 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lumpkin County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cane Creek in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Lumpkin County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331318. 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.