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Cisco, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Cisco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30708. It lies near Sumac Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Tennga quadrangle. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Cisco within Murray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 22 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

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Cisco between 1992 and 2019, burning about 570 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 29 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 burning81
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MURRAY-004
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-MURRAY-004
24 September 1999Debris and open burning4.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1993Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Cisco: 4 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Copper, Manganese, Iron. 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
Green PropertyManganese, IronUnknown1918
Mill Creek Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Powell PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1919
Miller PropertyManganeseProspect1919
Silver PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919
White PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919
Doogan Mt. Distr.IronPast ProducerResidual
F.M.Powell PropertyIronUnknown
John Johnson ProspectIronOccurrence
Lafollette Coal and Iron Co ProspIronProspect

Every working recorded in Murray County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cisco in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 10 injuries. 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
April 1998Tornado (F1)Cisco10 hurt, $200,000An apparent tornado touched down briefly, hitting a mobile home park in the Temple Grove, Higdon Road, and Turvey-Nichols Road areas in Cisco. Seven mobile homes were destroyed, 2 received major damage and 6 minor damage. One home had major structural damage and 14 had minor damage. Roofs were blown off houses and trees were scattered like toothpicks. There were no serious injuries, but 6 people were taken to the medical center, where they were treated and released. The intensity, width, and length were estimated.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindCisco$15,000The Murray County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees were blown down scattered about the county. The roof was blown off the porch of a mobile home and a portion of the siding was also off the home south of Chatsworth near the intersection of Smyrna Church Road and Blackwell Drive.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindCisco$5,000The Murray County Emergency Manager reported multiple power lines blown down between Cisco and Tennga along Shields Road and Tennga Gregory Road.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCisco$5,000The Murray County 911 Center reported that many trees and power lines were down across the county. Radar data suggests that most of this occurred in the western half of the county.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCisco$4,000Report of 4 trees down in the town of cisco .
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCisco$3,000The Murray county 911 center reported that some trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2010Thunderstorm WindCisco$1,000The Murray County 911 Center reported that three trees were down in the Cisco area.
May 2009HailCisco-A storm spotter reported penny-sized hail near Cisco.
August 2008HailCisco-A storm spotter observed nickel-sized hail.
May 2006HailCisco-The public observed nickel-sized hail for a 10-minute period.

Every storm recorded in Murray 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
Temple Grove2.4 miles19
Gregory2.4 miles19
Tennga2.5 miles22
North Cohutta (historical)4.1 miles22
Doogan4.2 miles22
Cohutta Springs4.4 miles22
Sumac5.7 miles19
Crandall5.8 miles21

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 CiscoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986563The 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 331402. 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.