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Elizabeth, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30062. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle.

Elizabeth within Cobb County

On record in Elizabeth

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Elizabeth between 1992 and 2017, burning about 89 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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/incendiarism9
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKennesaw Mountain National Battlefield ParkFIRE2
19 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 2009Naturalunder an acreKennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park90109
6 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.6 acresKennesaw Mountain National Battlefield ParkJUDGE'S ROW
25 June 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 May 1993Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elizabeth: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Kennesaw QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cobb County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elizabeth in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2016: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2010LightningElizabeth1 hurtWSB Television of Atlanta reported that lightning struck and injured a man hiking at the Kennesaw National Battlefield Park.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindElizabeth$8,000The Cobb County 911 center reported trees several trees blown down across eastern Cobb County including along New Macland Road, Paper Mill Road and Maxwell Avenue, as well as around the intersection of Cooper Lake Drive and Atlanta Road.
September 2015HailElizabeth-A trained storm spotter reported hail up to the size of pennies just north of Marietta.
April 2015HailElizabeth-A trained spotter reported half dollar size hail.
April 2009Funnel CloudElizabeth-The Georgia Emergency Management Agency relayed reports of funnel clouds from northeast Cobb county near the Interstate 75 and Interstate 575 split. A mesoscale circulation was clearly evident on Doppler radar in this area.

Every storm recorded in Cobb 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
Westoak1.2 miles20
Oakton1.4 miles20
Fort Hill Homes1.5 miles20
Marietta1.6 miles20
Clay Homes1.9 miles20
Blackwells2.0 miles20
Marietta Place Homes (historical)2.4 miles20
Powell Station2.5 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331646. 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.