Durham Town, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Union Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30669. It stands on Fluker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Woodville quadrangle.

Durham Town within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Woodville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Durham Town between 1992 and 2017, burning about 674 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 23 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 burning	49
Arson/incendiarism	23
Smoking	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GREENE-012
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Smoking	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Durham Town: 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Gold, Iron, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mitchell Hill Prospect	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Sunshine Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Taliaferro Magnetite Deposit	Iron	Past Producer	1917
Ga Manganese Co Mine/Taliaferro Magnetite Mine	Manganese	Past Producer	Residual
Georgia Manganese Company	Manganese	Unknown	1916
W. H. Murden Property	Manganese	Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Greene 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Temperance Bell	1.3 miles	11
Grantville (historical)	1.8 miles	11
Jacksonville	2.0 miles	11
Bethesda	2.2 miles	11
Daniel Springs	3.2 miles	13
Union Point	3.9 miles	12
Woodville	4.0 miles	11
Bairdstown	5.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331607. 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.