Cedar Valley, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bowdon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30108. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bowdon West quadrangle.

Cedar Valley within Carroll County

On record in Cedar Valley

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

McDaniel-Huie Placelisted 1990 · 0.4 miles away
Bowdon Historic Districtlisted 2009 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1889 USGS Tallapoosa quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Tallapoosa quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Tallapoosa quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Bowdon West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Bowdon West quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Anniston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 580 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 32 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 burning	65
Arson/incendiarism	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2018	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019CARROLL003
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bowdon	1.0 miles	16
Jonesville	2.7 miles	15
Victory	3.8 miles	15
Fairview (historical)	4.1 miles	15
Bucktown	4.5 miles	13
Farmers High	4.5 miles	15
Burwell	4.5 miles	15
Joel	4.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350749. 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.