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Chestnut Mountain, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It lies in ZIP code area 30542. The Survey maps it on the Chestnut Mountain quadrangle. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Chestnut Mountain within Hall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

240 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Chestnut Mountain between 1992 and 2019, burning about 518 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 48 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 burning111
Arson/incendiarism48
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony6
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 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-HALL-001
8 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Debris and open burning4.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HALL-004
10 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hall County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chestnut Mountain: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gainsville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Hall County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chestnut Mountain in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
May 2020Thunderstorm WindChestnut Mountain$5,000The Hall County Emergency Manager reported power lines blown down near the intersection of Highway 211 and Winder Highway.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindChestnut Mountain$1,000Tree down across roadway on 4200 block of Benefield Rd.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindChestnut Mountain$1,000EM reported tree down at Tranquility Dr and hwy 53.
July 2008HailChestnut Mountain-The Hall County Emergency Management Director reported quarter-sized hail in southern Hall county.
July 2008HailChestnut Mountain-The public observed penny-sized hail south of Gainesville.

Every storm recorded in Hall 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
Hillcroft Heights0.8 miles15
Bretton Woods1.1 miles15
Strickland Heights1.2 miles15
Chestnut Hill2.2 miles15
Alandale2.4 miles15
Mulberry2.6 miles15
Springfield Downs2.7 miles15
Tanner Mill2.8 miles15

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 Chestnut MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986561The 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 312629. 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.