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Craytonia, Georgia

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Morganton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30560. It lies near Seabolt Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Wilscot quadrangle.

Craytonia within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Craytonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 839 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 51 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 burning127
Arson/incendiarism51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestSKEENAH GAP
14 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2007Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Craytonia: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
No NameGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craytonia in 1 storm report in 2025: 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCraytonia$3,000Several trees snapped or toppled on the 2000 block of Skeenah Gap Rd.

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Hurst1.6 miles25
Hemp3.3 miles23
Padena3.4 miles25
Mashburn Mill4.0 miles23
Sparks Mill4.1 miles23
Bryan Mill4.3 miles23
Sugar Hill4.6 miles25
Maple Grove5.2 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 351084. 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.