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Cedar Valley, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dalton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30721. It lies near Cedar Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Dalton North quadrangle.

Cedar Valley within Whitfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

310 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 310 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 513 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 56 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 burning185
Arson/incendiarism56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking8
Natural6

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 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Debris and open burning5.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WALKER-018
8 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning5.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-WHITFIELD-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Valley: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, Iron, Manganese, Marble, Dimension. 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
Hammontree ProspectIronOccurrence
Jet Black Marble Co QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Lanski Property--Talc Indus IncStone, Crushed/Broken, ManganeseProducer1918
Bare PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence1919
Cooper PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eslinger PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence1919
George Cline PropertyBarium-BaritePast Producer
Lanski Property-Varnell-Cohutta DistrictIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Sam & Jw Cline PropertyBarium-BariteProspect

Every working recorded in Whitfield 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
Toonnerville1.6 miles21
Pleasant Grove2.4 miles21
Plainview2.4 miles24
Fillmore (historical)2.9 miles21
Prater Mill2.9 miles24
Dawnville2.9 miles21
Ruralvale3.2 miles19
Norton3.2 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331362. 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.