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Doogan, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Cisco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30708. It stands on Jigger Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tennga quadrangle.

Doogan within Murray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 22 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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Doogan between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2,056 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 21 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 burning27
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
21 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-MURRAY-005
3 July 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 July 1995Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestRICE CAMP TRAIL
4 June 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestHORSESHOE BEND
27 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MURRAY-018
27 June 2012Natural400 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MURRAY-019
22 June 2006Recreation and ceremony12 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestJACKS RIVER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Doogan: 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Manganese, Iron, Iron, Manganese. 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
Green PropertyManganese, IronUnknown1918
Powell PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1919
Doogan Mt. Distr.IronPast ProducerResidual
F.M.Powell PropertyIronUnknown
Miller PropertyManganeseProspect1919
Silver PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919
White PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919

Every working recorded in Murray County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doogan in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindDoogan-Mesonet station cohg1 4 n conasauga lake .

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
Alaculsy2.0 miles22
Cisco4.2 miles22
Tennga4.4 miles22
North Cohutta (historical)5.8 miles22
Temple Grove6.6 miles19
Gregory6.6 miles19
Cohutta Springs6.6 miles22
Crandall8.4 miles21

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 Q122555853The 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 334532. 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.