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Dennis, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Chatsworth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30705. The Survey maps it on the Ramhurst quadrangle.

Dennis within Murray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

307 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Dennis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,597 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 65 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 burning150
Arson/incendiarism65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking5

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 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-MURRAY-011
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism18 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Dennis: 13 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Bramlet Mine and ProspectTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Chicken Creek MineTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Cohutta MineTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Cohutta Talc MineTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Earnest MineTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Fields ProspectTalc-SoapstoneProspect
Georgia MineTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Georgia Talc MineTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Georgia Talc MineTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
Hammock ProspectTalc-SoapstoneProspect

Every working recorded in Murray County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dennis in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 2 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 2018Thunderstorm WindDennis$2,000The Murray County 911 center reported trees blown down in southeast Murray County on Dennis Mill Road between Old Federal Highway and the Rock Creek bridge.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindDennis-A tree was downed onto powerlines on Highway 282 just west of Woodring Branch Road.

Every storm recorded in Murray 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
Ramhurst1.2 miles19
Ball Ground4.4 miles19
Coniston4.4 miles19
Wells (historical)4.6 miles19
Fort Mountain (historical)5.3 miles21
Bloodtown5.3 miles19
Chatsworth5.5 miles21
Carters6.5 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on DennisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5258107The 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 331540. 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.