Dewey Crossroads, Georgia

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.

• 1890 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000
• 1891 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000
• 1896 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1941 USGS Adairsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Adairsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS White West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 318 fires within 5 miles of Dewey Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,490 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 141 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Simpson Crossroads
• Sophia (historical)
• Gum Springs
• Five Forks
• Grassdale
• Pleasant Valley

Every fire recorded in Bartow County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Dewey Crossroads: 13 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Iron, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Bartow County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355484. 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.