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Dial, Georgia

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Morganton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30513. It stands on Weeks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wilscot quadrangle.

Dial within Fannin County

On record in Dial

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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.

Fannin County Road 222 Bridge, Spanning Toccoa River, Dial, Fannin County, GA
Fannin County Road 222 Bridge, Spanning Toccoa River, Dial, Fannin County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Dial between 1992 and 2020, burning about 226 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 27 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 burning46
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes1

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 1999Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestLICKLOG FIRE
16 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestSKEENAH GAP
4 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestSANDY BOTTOM FIRE
26 August 2011Smoking1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FANNIN-003
25 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National Forestnot named
30 June 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 June 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestWILSCOTT CAMPFIRE
7 May 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin 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 Dial: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Mccloud MineGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Noontootly CreekGoldPast ProducerVein
Wade Allenis Gold MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dial in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2011HailDial$215,000The public observed golf ball-sized hail in far southeast Fannin county between Margret, Dial, and Hurst. This was from a separate severe thunderstorm from the one which caused 4.25 inch diameter hail in the north part of the county from Blue Ridge to Morganton approximately one hour earlier.
April 2006HailDial$160,000The Fannin County 911 Center reported that there had been a number of reports of penny-sized hail across the southeast portion of the county, including Dial, just south of Hurst, and Margret.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindDial$1,000A tree was reported down in the 11000 block of Aska Rd.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindDial$1,000The Fannin County 911 Center reported that a tree was down on a power line just southwest of Dial.
February 2020Flash FloodDial-The Emergency Manager reported Silver Fox Trail at Dial Road was closed due to flooding from Pigeon Creek. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 5 inches of rain occurred over the area, falling on already wet soils and resulting in flash flooding.
August 2010HailDial-The public observed half-dollar-sized hail in the Cooper Creek area in the far southeast part of Fannin county.
May 2009HailDial-A CocoRaHS observed reported nickel-sized hail in far southern Fannin county between Dial and Pisgah.
August 2000HailDial-The public reported quarter size hail.

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
Swan1.5 miles25
Sugar Hill2.4 miles25
Aska2.5 miles23
Newport2.7 miles23
Wilscot2.8 miles25
Wilson Mill3.4 miles23
Due (historical)3.6 miles23
Stock Hill3.7 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355486. 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.