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Carns Mill, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Talking Rock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30175. It stands on Fisher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Talking Rock quadrangle.

Carns Mill within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

302 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 302 fires within 5 miles of Carns Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,104 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 96 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 burning123
Arson/incendiarism96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Smoking10
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4

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
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance301 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-PICKENS-008
3 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Carns Mill: 8 past producers, 7 producers, 4 prospects, 1 plant. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension, 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
Betz MineGoldPast Producer
Mill No 4 Ga Marble CoDolomiteProducer
J F Hillhouse ProspectsMicaProspect
J L Mullinax ProspectMicaProspect
W J Garrison ProspectMicaProspect
Lots 142 & 143Marble, DimensionProspect
Marble Quarry UnnamedMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Marble Quarry UnnamedMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Marble Quarry UnnamedMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Unnamed Marble MineMarble, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carns Mill in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCarns Mill$30,000Significant swath of wind damage stretching across the southeast portion of the county. Damage and downstream reports were indicative of over 85mph winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCarns Mill$10,000The Pickens County 911 Center reported numerous trees blown down, mainly across the southern portion of the county.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCarns Mill$6,000The Pickens County 911 center reported several trees blown down on South Main Street, Refuge Road and Camp Road in the Jasper area.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCarns Mill$1,000One tree down 3 miles south of jasper .
May 2025HailCarns Mill-Estimated quarter-sized hail near the intersection of pettit road and henderson mountain road.

Every storm recorded in Pickens 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
Keasley (historical)0.6 miles20
Rober (historical)1.0 miles20
Talking Rock1.2 miles20
Blaine2.8 miles20
West Brook3.6 miles21
Clipper4.1 miles20
Ruden5.0 miles21
Hinton5.0 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122595225The 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 326209. 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.