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Caseyville, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cedartown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30125. It lies near Casey Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Benedict quadrangle.

Caseyville within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

812 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 812 fires within 5 miles of Caseyville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,531 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 556 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
Arson/incendiarism556
Debris and open burning184
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony14
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2

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 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-POLK-007
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism7.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020POLK003
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-POLK-006
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2008Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Caseyville: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Arsenic, Lead, Molybdenum, Zinc, Nickel. 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
Shiloh Church ProspectArsenic, Lead, Molybdenum, Zinc, NickelOccurrence1970
E H Alred MineIronPast Producer
Esom Hill AreaIronPast ProducerResidual
Shiloh Church PropertyIronPast Producer
T J Woodard MineIronPast Producer
Wray MineIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caseyville in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 flash flood. 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
August 2021Flash FloodCaseyville$20,000The Emergency Manager reported a road washed out near the intersection of Culp Lake Road and Johnson Lake Road. Radar estimates indicate that 2 to 3 inches of rain occurred over the area, causing the flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Fullwood Springs0.9 miles14
Walthrall (historical)2.4 miles14
Winkles (historical)3.1 miles16
Treat (historical)3.7 miles14
Akes3.9 miles14
Youngs4.6 miles16
Benedict4.7 miles14
Greenway (historical)4.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331339. 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.