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Dicks Hill, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cornelia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30563. The Survey maps it on the Ayersville quadrangle.

Dicks Hill within Habersham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

292 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 292 fires within 5 miles of Dicks Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,221 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 69 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 burning120
Arson/incendiarism69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use24
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burning7.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HABERSHAM001
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestHIGHWAY 365#1,#2,#3
18 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HABERSHAM-002
8 August 2008Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Habersham 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 Dicks Hill: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Nichols PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Scott Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Toccoa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Habersham 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
Midway2.3 miles18
Shorts Mill3.6 miles18
New Switzerland3.9 miles18
Anandale (historical)4.4 miles19
Hollywood4.7 miles19
Dixon Crossroads4.8 miles19
Stottsville4.9 miles18
Hills4.9 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122546315The 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 331550. 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.