Choestoe, Georgia

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.

• 1886 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1896 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
• 1903 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1935 USGS Coosa Bald quadrangle1:24000
• 1938 USGS Coosa Bald quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Coosa Bald quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1988 USGS Coosa Bald quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Choestoe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,631 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Fain
• Hood (historical)
• Town Creek
• Hood
• Laura (historical)
• Owltown

Every fire recorded in Union County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Choestoe: 2 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.

Every working recorded in Union County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Choestoe in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 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.

Every storm recorded in Union County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331396. 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.