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Cash, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairmount census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30139. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sonoraville quadrangle. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Cash within Gordon County

On record in Cash

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Lutens Bridge, County Road 228, Spanning Pine Log Creek, Cash, Gordon County, GA
Lutens Bridge, County Road 228, Spanning Pine Log Creek, Cash, Gordon County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Cash between 1992 and 2019, burning about 650 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 62 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 burning159
Arson/incendiarism62
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural6
Smoking5
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
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1993Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GORDON-002
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon 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
Big Spring (historical)1.0 miles19
Fambro (historical)1.7 miles19
Lewis Corner1.8 miles18
Sonoraville2.9 miles19
Redbud3.0 miles18
Hunts Corner3.1 miles18
Farmville3.2 miles19
Crane Eater3.8 miles18

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 CashAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5048620The 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 331340. 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.