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Cross Roads, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Reed Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30516. The Survey maps it on the Lavonia quadrangle.

Cross Roads within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Cross Roads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 489 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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 burning151
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Natural1

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 1997Debris and open burning4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HART001
5 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019FRANKLIN001
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HART-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Cross Roads: 12 past producers, 10 occurrences, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, Feldspar. 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
Rowland MineFeldspar, MicaPast Producer
Hays PropertyGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Unknown, ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Unknown, ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Unknown/Bowers PropertiesGoldPast ProducerVein
Winter PropertyGoldProspectPlacer
Banister MineMicaPast Producer
Garner MineMicaPast Producer
Green Rose MineMicaPast Producer
Hartwell Quarry & MillMicaPlant1919

Every working recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cross Roads in 1 storm report in 2021: 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindCross Roads-County comms reported trees and a few power lines blown down across north central Hart County, including along Ridge Rd.

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Mount Olivet2.0 miles14
Flat Shoals2.8 miles13
Maretts3.0 miles14
Bowersville3.5 miles14
Shoal Creek3.6 miles15
Parkertown Mill4.7 miles15
Parkertown4.9 miles15
Hartwell5.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355384. 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.