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Chelsea, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Menlo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30747. It lies in Chelsea Gulf. The Survey maps it on the Dougherty Gap quadrangle. It stands 787 feet above sea level.

Chelsea within Chattooga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

510 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 510 fires within 5 miles of Chelsea between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,728 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 285 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
Arson/incendiarism285
Debris and open burning186
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Smoking3

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 burning2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATTOOGA-011
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-CHATTOOGA-009
9 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CHATTOOGA005
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHATTOOGA-018
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattooga County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chelsea: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone. 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
Dallas York Tripoli MineStonePast Producer
Neal MineIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant

Every working recorded in Chattooga County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chelsea in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2019: 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 2016Thunderstorm WindChelsea$8,000The Chattooga County 911 center reported numerous trees blown down across western Chattooga County in the vicinity of Menlo, Summerville and Lyerly.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindChelsea$3,000The Chattooga County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down from north of Menlo at Old Highway 337 and Agnew Road to Berryton on Back Barryton Road.

Every storm recorded in Chattooga 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
Broomtown (historical)1.6 miles24
Neal Crossing2.4 miles24
Fairview (historical)2.6 miles17
Cloudland2.9 miles24
Teloga3.0 miles24
Menlo3.3 miles17
Mineral Springs (historical)3.4 miles17
Perennial5.0 miles17

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 ChelseaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19864304The 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 331381. 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.