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County Manor, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cartersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30121. It lies near Peeples Valley. The Survey maps it on the Cartersville quadrangle.

County Manor within Bartow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Fires near this place

386 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 386 fires within 5 miles of County Manor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,255 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 164 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
Arson/incendiarism164
Debris and open burning134
Equipment and vehicle use24
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Debris and open burning9.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BARTOW-027
21 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use4.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 162 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 162 workings within 5 miles of County Manor: 88 occurrences, 40 past producers, 29 unknowns, 4 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Barium-Barite, Iron, Manganese. 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
Felton MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Gemes Mine CartersvilleCobalt, ManganesePast Producer1908
Georgia Art Pottery Co PitsClayPast Producer
Lots 191 and 242Manganese, IronUnknown1954
VaughnManganese, CobaltPast Producer
WardManganese, Cobalt, NickelUnknownResidual
Cartersville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Ladd Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cartervile Distr.-CBarium-Barite, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Georgia Barium PocherBarium-Barite, ManganesePast Producer1917

Every working recorded in Bartow 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
Harvest Estates0.7 miles19
Shallwood0.8 miles19
Burnt Hickory Hills1.2 miles19
Walker Hills1.4 miles19
Rodgers1.5 miles19
Oakland Heights1.6 miles19
Habersham2.1 miles19
Cassville2.2 miles19

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 Q122549809The 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 334263. 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.