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Ebenezer, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ivylog census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30582. It lies near Poplar Knob. The Survey maps it on the Blairsville quadrangle.

Ebenezer within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Ebenezer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 391 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 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 burning164
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Arson/incendiarism22
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestIVY LOG GAP
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-UNION-001
14 September 1998Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TOWNS-001
27 August 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Ebenezer: 13 prospects, 10 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Corundum, Kyanite. 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
Track Rock Corundum MineCorundumPast Producer
Warne-Sylva Kyn BeltKyaniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
BrownGoldProspectVein
Butt MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Chastian Placer MineGoldPast Producer
E.R. Brown MineGoldProspectVein
Gum Log/J.H. Brown/Brown/Placer MinesGoldPast ProducerVein
Horse VeinGoldOccurrence
Horse VeinGoldProspectVein
Hunt MineGoldProspectVein

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ebenezer in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 1 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 2024Thunderstorm WindEbenezer$1,000A tree was downed on Ivylog Drive near Hideaway Hills Road.
April 2020FloodEbenezer-The Emergency Manager reported Ivy Log Gap Road at Henderson Road and Sugar Branch Lane were impassable due to high water through Rogers Branch and Ivy Log Creek, respectively. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 5 inches of rain occurred in the area, causing the flooding.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Spile2.3 miles23
Spilo (historical)2.3 miles23
Townsend Mill4.0 miles24
Trackrock (historical)4.0 miles24
Pleasant Hill4.2 miles23
Canal Lake4.5 miles23
Blairsville4.6 miles23
Youngstown4.8 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 330950. 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.