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Chubbtown, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cave Spring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30147. It stands on Lake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedartown West quadrangle.

Chubbtown within Floyd County

On record in Chubbtown

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

10 surveys from 18 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

423 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 423 fires within 5 miles of Chubbtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,679 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 191 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/incendiarism191
Debris and open burning181
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 burning20 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FLOYD-009
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-POLK-006
3 September 2013Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-FLOYD-001
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism33 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1993Arson/incendiarism27 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1993Debris and open burning2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 80 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 80 workings within 5 miles of Chubbtown: 38 past producers, 29 prospects, 8 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt. 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
Callahan Property Cave SpringManganese, CobaltPast Producer
Berkstresser Prop Cave SpringCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Berkstresser, H.L. ProspectCobalt, NickelProducerReplacement
CallahanManganese, Nickel, CobaltUnknownResidual
Gibson MineManganese, Cobalt, NickelProducerResidual
Gibson MineCobalt, ManganesePast Producer
Harper TractIron, ManganesePast Producer1895
Penland HillManganese, Nickel, CobaltProducerResidual
Spence PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1918
Bobo BankIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Floyd 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
Cave Spring3.1 miles18
Vans Valley3.6 miles17
Landers (historical)4.0 miles17
Yancey (historical)4.4 miles17
Relay4.9 miles19
Cunningham5.3 miles17
Foster Mills6.1 miles17
Reeseburg6.2 miles18

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 ChubbtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18347584The 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 355164. 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.