College Park, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Clarkesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30523. It stands on Porters Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Clarkesville NE quadrangle.

College Park within Habersham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1886 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1896 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Clarkesville NE quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

221 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of College Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 474 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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	149
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Arson/incendiarism	22
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Habersham County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of College Park: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kyanite. 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
Clarksville District Kyn Occurrence	Kyanite	Past Producer	1932
Habersham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Stamborough Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
C.T. Willbanks	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
H. Woods	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer
Nichols Placer	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer

Every working recorded in Habersham 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
Soquee (historical)	1.5 miles	18
Clarkesville	2.0 miles	18
Dixon Crossroads	2.1 miles	19
Anandale (historical)	2.8 miles	19
Hills	3.0 miles	18
Bert (historical)	3.3 miles	18
Habersham Station (historical)	3.7 miles	18
Habersham	3.9 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 351354. 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.