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Dewy Rose, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Elberton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30634. The Survey maps it on the Dewy Rose quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Dewy Rose within Elbert County

Population over time

2 figures

Dewy Rose grew from 154 to 161 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010154
2020161+7 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

244 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Dewy Rose between 1992 and 2020, burning about 489 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 24 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/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Natural8
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4

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 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-ELBERT-016
30 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-ELBERT-002
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-ELBERT-007
23 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-ELBERT-007
22 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020ELBERT005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Dewy Rose: 4 prospects, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Mica, Kyanite. 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
Norman Sillimanite ProspectKyaniteProspect
Adams MineMicaProspect
Dewey Rose ProspectMicaProspect
Frank Mewburn ProspectMicaProspect
Blue Ribbon QuarryGranitePast Producer
Peerless Extra Blue QuarryGraniteProducer
Scales QuarryGranitePast Producer
Veal Blue QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Elbert 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
Hard Cash1.4 miles14
Goss2.1 miles14
Harper2.8 miles14
Thirteen Forks3.2 miles14
Match3.4 miles14
Centerville4.1 miles14
Nickville4.7 miles14
Bowman4.8 miles14

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 Dewy RoseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5804806The 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 355485. 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.