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Chicopee, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Gainesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30504. It stands on Redwine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gainesville quadrangle.

Chicopee within Hall County

On record in Chicopee

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Chicopee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 483 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 58 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 burning106
Arson/incendiarism58
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HALL-003
8 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HALL003
28 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HALL002
25 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-HALL-002
18 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HALL-006
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hall County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Chicopee: 5 prospects, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Brenau CollegeGoldProspectVein
Currahee MineGoldProspectVein
DeanGoldProspectVein
Mammoth MineGoldProspectVein
Maynas MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Rogers and Anderson ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
StoweGoldProspectVein
Twitty? MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Vickers ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Hall County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chicopee in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindChicopee$1,000Tree down at Poplar Springs Church Road and Poplar Springs Road.

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
Tumlin Heights0.6 miles15
Mooney1.2 miles15
Westgate1.5 miles15
Westside1.5 miles15
Cascade Woods1.7 miles15
Holland1.8 miles15
Maple Forge1.9 miles14
Cherrywood2.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331392. 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.