Chappel, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Milner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30257. It stands on Little Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the High Falls quadrangle.

Chappel within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1951 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS High Falls quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

295 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 295 fires within 5 miles of Chappel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 653 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 30 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	193
Arson/incendiarism	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Smoking	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
5 September 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-BUTTS-002
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Smoking	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Chappel: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Flatrock Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
J I Taylor Prospects	Mica	Prospect
Taylor Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chappel in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2006	Tornado (F0)	Chappel	$2,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service concluded that a brief F0 tornado had touched down about three miles southwest of Chappel or six miles north-northeast of Barnesville and traveled on the ground eastward for an approximate distance of 300 yards or 0.2 mile. The tornado path width was 50 yards. A number of trees were snapped or toppled along the path, but no damage to structures was reported. This tornado was produced from the same supercell thunderstorm that had earlier spawned an F3 tornado in Pike county.

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Patillo	1.7 miles	11
Weldons Crossroads	1.8 miles	11
Liberty Hill	2.6 miles	11
Unionville	2.8 miles	11
Johnstonville	6.2 miles	10
Milner	6.7 miles	10
Goggins	7.0 miles	10
Five Points	7.2 miles	11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Chappel	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888660	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355118. 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.