Coniston, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Chatsworth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30705. It stands on Mineral Springs Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ramhurst quadrangle.

Coniston within Murray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Talking Rock quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1916 USGS Talking Rock quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Ramhurst quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

300 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Coniston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,930 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 91 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	127
Arson/incendiarism	91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Railroad operations and maintenance	16
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Recreation and ceremony	10
Natural	8
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MURRAY-011
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	CHICKEN CREEK
30 September 1993	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 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bloodtown	1.3 miles	19
Carters	2.2 miles	19
Wells (historical)	2.4 miles	19
Ball Ground	2.9 miles	19
Ramhurst	4.3 miles	19
Dennis	4.4 miles	19
Holley	6.6 miles	19
Chatsworth	9.4 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331446. 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.