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Driftwood Station, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Woodstock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30188. The Survey maps it on the Mountain Park quadrangle.

Driftwood Station within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

304 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of Driftwood Station between 1992 and 2017, burning about 627 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 72 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 burning103
Arson/incendiarism72
Misuse of fire by a minor52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking10
Natural4

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 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Driftwood Station: 10 past producers, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, 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
Bell-Star MineIron, ManganeseProspect1918
Bailey PropertyGoldPast Producer1840
M.D. SmithGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Van ProspectGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Worley MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Daniels ProspectMicaProspect
Dean MineMicaPast Producer
Delay ProspectMicaProspect
Hause MinesMicaPast Producer
J D Hillhouse MinesMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Nowlin Hall0.4 miles23
Driftwood Forest0.4 miles23
Park Place Estates0.5 miles23
Arnold Mill0.6 miles23
Colony Woods0.6 miles23
Creek View0.7 miles23
Ansley Forest0.7 miles23
Rocky Springs0.7 miles23

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 Q122594856The 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 1705099. 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.