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Canon, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It lies in ZIP code area 30520. The Survey maps it on the Royston quadrangle. 643 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Canon within Hart County

Population over time

2 figures

Canon fell from 804 to 643 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010804
2020643-161 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Canon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 352 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 burning133
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism16
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019FRANKLIN001
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN006
23 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HART-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Canon: 8 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold. 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
Hays PropertyGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Unknown/Bowers PropertiesGoldPast ProducerVein
Winter PropertyGoldProspectPlacer
Banister MineMicaPast Producer
Garner MineMicaPast Producer
Green Rose MineMicaPast Producer
Hartwell Quarry & MillMicaPlant1919
Highway DepositsMicaOccurrence
Horse Head MineMicaPast Producer
Hubert Creek DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Hart 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
Bowersville2.3 miles14
Royston4.1 miles14
Goldmine5.1 miles14
Cross Roads5.6 miles15
Eagle Grove6.5 miles14
Flat Shoals6.5 miles13
Vanna7.5 miles14
Shoal Creek7.6 miles15

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 CanonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2106269The 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 354984. 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.