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Daniel, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rayle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30631. The Survey maps it on the Philomath quadrangle.

Daniel within Wilkes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

James C. Daniel House, Bartram Trace Road, Washington, Wilkes County, GA
James C. Daniel House, Bartram Trace Road, Washington, Wilkes County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Daniel between 1992 and 2019, burning about 310 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 18 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 burning50
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural7
Smoking4

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
6 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Arson/incendiarism50 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WILKES-010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Daniel: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron. 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
Taliaferro Magnetite DepositIronPast Producer1917
Ga Manganese Co Mine/Taliaferro Magnetite MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
Georgia Manganese CompanyManganeseUnknown1916

Every working recorded in Wilkes County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daniel in 1 storm report in 2017: 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 2017Thunderstorm WindDaniel$5,000The Wilkes County 911 center reported trees blown down from Bartram Trace Road near Highway 44 to Sharon Road south of Washington and Hill Street in Washington.

Every storm recorded in Wilkes 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
Tyrone2.3 miles13
Lina (historical)4.7 miles13
Ficklin6.9 miles13
Little River7.2 miles13
Lincoln Heights8.2 miles13
Rayle8.7 miles12
Celeste8.8 miles12
Washington Heights8.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 342750. 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.