Edinburg, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Coldwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30635. It stands on Coldwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lowndesville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Edinburg within Elbert County

On record in Edinburg

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Alexander-Cleveland Houselisted 1977 · 0.4 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1893 USGS Elberton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Lowndesville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Edinburg (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 254 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 7 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	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	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
3 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-ELBERT-004
13 September 2019	Natural	1.1 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2005	Debris and open burning	6.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elbert 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 Edinburg (historical): 3 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, Granite. 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
Robin Blue Quarry	Granite	Producer
Cook Prospect	Gold	Unknown	1908
Cook Prospect	Gold	Prospect
Crawford Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Daniel Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Heard Mine	Mica	Prospect
J M Skelton Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Elbert 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
Ruckersville	3.0 miles	14
Concordia (historical)	3.7 miles	14
Coldwater	4.3 miles	14
Fains Store	4.6 miles	14
Pearl	5.2 miles	14
Rock Branch	5.2 miles	14
Heardmont	5.4 miles	14
Middleton	6.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347826. 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.