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Copeland Crossing, Georgia

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Catoosa Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30736. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tunnel Hill quadrangle.

Copeland Crossing within Catoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

554 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 554 fires within 5 miles of Copeland Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,536 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 93 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 burning286
Arson/incendiarism93
Equipment and vehicle use71
Misuse of fire by a minor33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Smoking24
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CATOOSA002
9 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CATOOSA-008
9 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CATOOSA-005
7 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa 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 Copeland Crossing: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Manganese, Manganese, Iron. 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
Catoosa Mining Co ProspectsManganeseOccurrence
Fox and Dowler PropertyIron, ManganesePast Producer1889
UnnamedIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fry QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tunnel Hill Distr.Past ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Catoosa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copeland Crossing in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCopeland Crossing-Report of tree down on Houston Valley Rd.

Every storm recorded in Catoosa 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
Sugartown1.4 miles27
Greenwood1.9 miles27
Stone Church2.7 miles27
Shookville3.1 miles27
Pleasant Grove3.2 miles28
Catoosa Springs3.5 miles27
Ringgold3.7 miles27
Poplar Springs4.0 miles28

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 Q122558857The 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 355304. 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.

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.