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Cutcane, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mineral Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30559. It lies near Paris Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Culberson quadrangle.

Cutcane within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

382 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 382 fires within 5 miles of Cutcane between 1992 and 2020, burning about 737 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 57 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 burning247
Arson/incendiarism57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking7
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
23 September 1999Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FANNIN-006
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FANNIN-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin 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 Cutcane: 7 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Marble, Dimension, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Mineral Bluff QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Polk Patterson MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
Dillard & Prince MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Samples Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Talc ProspectTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence1939
Unnamed Talc ProspectTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Collins PropertyIronProspect
Mineral Bluff AreaIronPast ProducerStratabound Concordant
Owenby PropertyIronProspect
Silvey PropertyIronProspect

Every working recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cutcane in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
August 2014Thunderstorm WindCutcane$500The public reported 2 trees down on Valley Lake Road.

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
Coles Crossing1.0 miles23
Brown Mill1.0 miles23
Loving1.4 miles23
Pleasant Hill2.0 miles23
Dora (historical)2.5 miles23
Rocky Gap (historical)2.6 miles23
Mineral Bluff2.6 miles23
McCullough2.6 miles23

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 Q122543685The 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 331501. 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.