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Cedar Hill, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Trenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30738. It stands on Stewart Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle.

Cedar Hill within Dade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

445 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 445 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,669 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 107 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 burning264
Arson/incendiarism107
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony14
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Natural1

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DADE005
7 September 2010Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-003
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-002
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-DADE-006
30 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DADE008
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DADE006
23 September 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-DADE-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Hill: 8 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Dimension, Clay. 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
Halloysite MineClayPast Producer
Progressive Industries QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Southern Iron and Steel Co QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Phoenix Iron & Coal MinesIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Sutton & Austin MinesIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed, Lot 37, 11th DistrictIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Rising Fawn AreaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dade County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Hill in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 1 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCedar Hill$8,000The Dade County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down near I-59 at exit 4 as well as trees and power lines blown down at the intersection of Highway 11 South and Lambert Lane.
May 2024HailCedar Hill-Report of 1.5 inch hail near Daniel Trace Dr off of South Sunset Dr.

Every storm recorded in Dade 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
Stewart Town1.3 miles23
Tatum (historical)2.2 miles23
Union2.4 miles23
Plum Nelly3.2 miles25
Gass3.6 miles23
Rising Fawn3.7 miles23
Trenton4.4 miles23
Avans5.0 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334378. 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.