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Cross Road Farms, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Paulding census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30132. It stands on Picketts Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burnt Hickory Ridge quadrangle.

Cross Road Farms within Paulding County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

258 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 258 fires within 5 miles of Cross Road Farms between 1992 and 2020, burning about 667 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 92 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 burning106
Arson/incendiarism92
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking5
Natural2

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
30 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PAULDING-012
20 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020PAULDING004
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Paulding County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cross Road Farms: 3 prospects, 2 past producers. 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
Dunaway MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Mason MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Merrit ProspectGoldProspectVein
RussellGoldProspectVein
W. H. Hadaway ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Paulding 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
Oak Hill0.6 miles18
Cross Roads0.7 miles18
Roxana1.1 miles17
Hampton Estates1.2 miles17
Green Hills Estates1.3 miles24
Picketts Creek1.3 miles18
Mill Creek Station1.5 miles17
Oak Haven1.6 miles17

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 Q122556654The 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 349815. 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.