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Dugdown, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It lies in ZIP code area 30113. The Survey maps it on the Benedict quadrangle.

Dugdown within Haralson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

805 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 805 fires within 5 miles of Dugdown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,679 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 578 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
Arson/incendiarism578
Debris and open burning161
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2

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 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-POLK-005
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haralson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dugdown: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Hightower Bank & James YoungIronPast ProducerResidual
Wray MineIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Haralson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dugdown in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 2 flash flood, 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindDugdown$8,000The Haralson County 911 center reported several trees blown down across the northern part of the county from northwest through northeast of Buchanan. Locations include Monroe Mill Road, 5 Points Road and near the intersection of Floyd Road and Mountain View Road.
March 2011Flash FloodDugdown$3,000The Haralson County Emergency Management Director reported that two roads were closed because of flash flooding or small streams and creeks in the area. Beech Creek Bridge and Francis White Road were closed because of flash flooding when the adjacent creek flowed out of its banks. Damage was confined to minor debris removal in the area.
July 2013Flash FloodDugdown$2,000A couple of creeks were temporarily out of their banks and caused two roads to be closed due to flooding in a portion of central Haralson County.

Every storm recorded in Haralson 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
Felton1.9 miles16
Little Creek3.1 miles14
Abernathys Mill3.4 miles16
Latham (historical)5.2 miles16
Poplar Springs6.3 miles14
Steadman6.5 miles14
Buchanan7.6 miles16
Tabernacle8.4 miles16

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 Q122560909The 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 331594. 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.