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Cohutta Springs, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Crandall-Eton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30711. It stands on Cohutta Springs Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tennga quadrangle.

Cohutta Springs 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

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Cohutta Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,602 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 51 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 burning127
Arson/incendiarism51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking2

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 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestHICKORY RIDGE
8 September 2008Debris and open burning1.5 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestTURTLE
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestOVERLOOK FIRE
4 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-MURRAY-004
24 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-MURRAY-001
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 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Cohutta Springs: 7 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Copper. 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
Mill Creek Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Silver PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919
White PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919
C.C. and J.H. Keith PropertyIronPast Producer
Hickey Property Mine-A?IronPast ProducerResidual
J.K. Keith PropertyIronPast Producer
John Johnson ProspectIronOccurrence
Keith PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual
Lafollette Coal and Iron Co ProspIronProspect
Poteet PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working 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
North Cohutta (historical)1.0 miles22
Crandall1.8 miles21
Temple Grove3.7 miles19
Sumac3.8 miles19
Cisco4.4 miles22
Eton4.7 miles21
Gregory5.4 miles19
Hasslers Mill5.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122545392The 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 331430. 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.