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Cave Spring, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cave Spring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30124. It lies near Dardy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Cedartown West quadrangle. 1,174 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Cave Spring within Floyd County

On record in Cave Spring

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 12 of 25 shown

Every listing in Floyd County

Population over time

2 figures

Cave Spring fell from 1,200 to 1,174 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,200
20201,174-26 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

297 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Cave Spring between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,553 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 130 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/incendiarism130
Debris and open burning126
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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 2002Debris and open burning20 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FLOYD-009
6 September 2007Arson/incendiarism13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FLOYD-008
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism33 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-FLOYD-027
16 September 2000Debris and open burning3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-FLOYD-021

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Cave Spring: 20 past producers, 10 occurrences, 7 prospects, 3 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Aluminum, Iron, Cobalt, Manganese. 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
Callahan Property Cave SpringManganese, CobaltPast Producer
Gibson MineManganese, Cobalt, NickelProducerResidual
Spence PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1918
Berkstresser Prop Cave SpringCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
CallahanManganese, Nickel, CobaltUnknownResidual
MccollumManganese, Nickel, CobaltUnknownResidual
Mccollum Prospect Cave SpringCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Cave Spring-AIronPast ProducerResidual
Cave Spring-BIronPast ProducerResidual
Cave Spring-CIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cave Spring in 1 storm report in 1996: 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
May 1996HailCave Spring-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Vans Valley1.8 miles17
Chubbtown3.1 miles18
Landers (historical)3.9 miles17
Yancey (historical)4.0 miles17
Foster Mills4.1 miles17
Haney4.7 miles18
Cunningham5.5 miles17
Melson5.9 miles17

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 Cave SpringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3261108The 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 355041. 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.