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Cedar Rock, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Camak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30824. It stands on Childers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wrightsboro quadrangle.

Cedar Rock within Warren 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

219 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 219 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 661 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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 burning143
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking12
Arson/incendiarism11
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MCDUFFIE-005
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WARREN-012
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MCDUFFIE005
26 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Smoking1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burning6.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Rock: 3 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Weston and Brooker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
SellersGoldProspectVein
TaylorGoldProspectVein
Warren MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Wilson & WatsonGoldProspectVein

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Rock in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCedar Rock$6,000The Warren County 911 center reported trees blown down from north of Norwood to near Warrenton including along I-20 around mile marker 158 and around Durham Road, and near the intersection of Elam Church Road and Jack Ray Road.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Thigpen1.3 miles12
Cadley3.2 miles12
Mesena3.2 miles10
Camak3.8 miles10
Norwood5.5 miles10
Silvertown5.8 miles10
Plainview5.9 miles10
East Warrenton6.7 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331361. 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.