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Chattanooga Valley, 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 lies near Tannery Gulf. The Survey maps it on the Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle. 3,962 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Chattanooga Valley within Walker County

Population over time

2 figures

Chattanooga Valley grew from 3,846 to 3,962 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,846
20203,962+116 (+3%)

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

420 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 420 fires within 5 miles of Chattanooga Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,870 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 138 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 burning206
Arson/incendiarism138
Recreation and ceremony18
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Smoking7
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes1

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 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
29 September 1993Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DADE007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Chattanooga Valley: 9 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Aluminum. 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
Frank Gillum ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
Unnamed ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Alton Park TractStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1952
Alton Park TractClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Chatanooga MineClayUnknown
Dave L Brown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
General Shale Georgia PitClayProducer
Rossville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
D. Martin's MineIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Hall Ore Bank AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant

Every working 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
Eagle Cliff0.3 miles28
Moons0.4 miles28
Gerber (historical)0.7 miles28
Valley View0.7 miles28
Flintstone0.9 miles28
Cenchat1.5 miles28
Fantasy Hills1.6 miles28
Green Hills1.6 miles28

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 Chattanooga ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1914521The 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 353986. 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.