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Clarkdale, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Austell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30106. It stands on Powder Springs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Austell quadrangle. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

Clarkdale within Cobb County

On record in Clarkdale

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Clarkdale between 1992 and 2018, burning about 183 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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 burning23
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
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
25 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2007Natural1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PAULDING-002
3 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 1995Natural3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkdale in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 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
April 2012HailClarkdale-The public reported quarter sized hail from near Powder Springs to Pair Road.

Every storm recorded in Cobb 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
Hillsdale Heights0.8 miles20
James Heights0.9 miles20
Wesley Station1.0 miles20
Springbrook1.3 miles20
Austell1.5 miles20
Sherwood Park1.6 miles20
Bannister Acres1.8 miles20
Westridge1.9 miles20

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 ClarkdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5127444The 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 331406. 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.

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.