Clearview, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Oglethorpe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31711. It stands on Goose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pennington quadrangle.

Clearview within Macon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Pennington quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

244 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Clearview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 816 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 19 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 burning	135
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Arson/incendiarism	19
Smoking	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1995	Debris and open burning	6.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MACON005
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	6.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MACON004
5 September 1995	Smoking	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MACON003
4 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MACON006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Clearview: 17 past producers, 5 prospects, 5 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin, Clay, Aluminum, Kaolin, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Andersonville Bauxite District	Aluminum, Kaolin	Past Producer	SEDIMENTARY
Hatton Mine	Aluminum, Ball Clay	Past Producer
Mullite Company of America	Kaolin, Aluminum	Occurrence	Weathering Residual
Mullite North Pit Lot 278	Clay, Aluminum	Past Producer
Webb Pit No. M3	Clay	Past Producer
Wilburn Pit No 1	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
English Mine	Aluminum, Kaolin	Past Producer
Harin and Aycock Properties	Aluminum, Kaolin	Prospect
Mcmichael Mine	Aluminum, Kaolin	Past Producer
Prospect	Aluminum, Kaolin	Prospect

Every working recorded in Macon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cutoff	2.3 miles	8
Oglethorpe	3.3 miles	8
Travelers Rest	3.3 miles	8
Fields	4.5 miles	8
Montezuma	4.7 miles	8
Fountainville	5.0 miles	7
Spalding	5.1 miles	8
Bartlett	6.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326220. 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.