Carling, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Milledgeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31061. The Survey maps it on the Milledgeville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Carling within Baldwin County

On record in Carling

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 6 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

John Rutherford Houselisted 1978 · 0.2 miles away
Samuel Rockwell Houselisted 1978 · 0.3 miles away
Fort-Hammond-Willis Houselisted 2003 · 0.5 miles away
Rose Hilllisted 2017 · 0.8 miles away
Storehouse, State Lunatic Asylumlisted 1978 · 0.9 miles away
Thalian Halllisted 1978 · 0.4 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1912 USGS Milledgeville 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
1972 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

275 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Carling (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 710 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 10 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	165
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Smoking	17
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
8 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BALDWIN007
6 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BALDWIN005
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BALDWIN012
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BALDWIN-005
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BALDWIN-006
23 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-BALDWIN-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Carling (historical): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
	Midgeville Plant No. 1	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Baldwin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Harrisburg	0.5 miles	15
Hardwick	1.2 miles	15
Allenwood	1.6 miles	11
Milledgeville	1.7 miles	15
Scottsboro	2.1 miles	15
The Colony	3.7 miles	15
Blandy	3.8 miles	11
Pancras	4.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334769. 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.