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Crandall, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Crandall-Eton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30711. It stands on Cohorn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Crandall quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Crandall within Murray County

On record in Crandall

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 21 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

302 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 302 fires within 5 miles of Crandall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,488 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 45 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 burning160
Arson/incendiarism45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Misuse of fire by a minor26
Natural15
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking4
Fireworks1

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 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Debris and open burning4.2 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
24 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia 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 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Crandall: 8 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Hayes Rock MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
J.F.Love PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect
Mill Creek Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
C.C. and J.H. Keith PropertyIronPast Producer
Hickey Property Mine-A?IronPast ProducerResidual
J.K. Keith PropertyIronPast Producer
J.W.Coffey PropertyIronOccurrence
Jessf Jackson PropertyIronOccurrence
John Johnson ProspectIronOccurrence
Keith PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Murray County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crandall in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
December 2015Flash FloodCrandall$2,000A USGS stream gauge on Holly Creek at Smyrna Ramhurst Road or 3 miles south of Chatsworth reached flood stage of 10 feet. The creek crest at 11.9 feet. Minor flooding occurred in the woodlands...fields and pasture upstream and downstream from the gauge.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindCrandall$500The Murray County 911 Center reported that a couple of trees were blown down along Highway 225 North, in the Crandall area.
July 2005Flash FloodCrandall$250The Murray County 911 Center reported that Mill Creek Road was flooded by Mill Creek. The road was impassable.
March 2019HailCrandall-The Public reported nickel to quarter size hail from Chatsworth to Crandall.
February 2005HailCrandall-The Murray County Fire Department and Rescue Squad reported penny-sized hail.
May 1996HailCrandall-no account filed
May 1995HailCrandall-no account filed

Every storm 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
Cohutta Springs1.8 miles22
North Cohutta (historical)2.7 miles22
Eton3.0 miles21
Sumac3.1 miles19
Temple Grove4.5 miles19
Hasslers Mill4.6 miles21
Oran5.2 miles21
Cisco5.8 miles22

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.

Wikipedia article on CrandallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986573The 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 355363. 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.