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Cenchat, Georgia

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Chattanooga Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30725. It stands on Powder Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle.

Cenchat within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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

400 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 400 fires within 5 miles of Cenchat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,018 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 139 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 burning196
Arson/incendiarism139
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2016Debris and open burning4.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-DADE-009
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WALKER-016
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WALKER-014
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cenchat: 8 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
General Shale Georgia PitClayProducer
Dave L Brown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rossville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
D. Martin's MineIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Hall Ore Bank AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
High Point AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
J.T. Algoods PropertyIronPast Producer
Mcfarland MineIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Stoner-Caldwell PropertyIronPast Producer
High Point AreaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cenchat in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 2 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCenchat$10,000Report via social media of multiple large trees down along Mission Ridge Rd in Rossville. Tree diameter is roughly 2 ft.
December 2019Thunderstorm WindCenchat$1,000The Walker County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down on Ridgeland Road in Rossville.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Green Hills0.7 miles28
Valley View0.8 miles28
Eagle Cliff1.1 miles28
Laurelwood Estates1.2 miles28
Moons1.2 miles28
Mountain View1.4 miles28
Chattanooga Valley1.5 miles28
Wallaceville1.8 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331363. 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.