BlockCarmel, Georgia
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Gay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30218. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Haralson quadrangle.
On record in Carmel
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Carmel Rural Historic Districtlisted 1998 · 0.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Haralson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
199 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Carmel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,098 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 23 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 | 115 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020SPALDING002 |
| 24 September 2005 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019PIKE001 |
| 19 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346846. 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.