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Crowders Crossing, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Warm Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30222. The Survey maps it on the Warm Springs quadrangle.

Crowders Crossing within Meriwether County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Crowders Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 491 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 15 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 burning80
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-MERIWETHER-005
10 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2011Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MERIWETHER-007
25 August 1997Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Crowders Crossing: 4 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica. 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
Cedar Rock ProspectGraniteOccurrence
Harris City MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Snelson MineMicaPast Producer
Warm Springs BauxiteKaolinPast Producer1910, 1915
ProspectAluminumProspect
Red Bauxite OutcropAluminumOccurrence
Republic MineAluminumPast Producer
Smith Prospect No. 1AluminumProspect
Smith Prospect No. 2AluminumProspect
Turner ProspectAluminumProspect

Every working recorded in Meriwether 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
Hunters Crossroad2.3 miles10
Harris City2.5 miles22
Durand2.6 miles10
Barnes Crossroads3.1 miles22
Warm Springs4.1 miles22
White Sulphur Springs4.3 miles10
County Line4.4 miles10
Snelsons Crossroads4.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122597889The 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 331488. 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.