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Fighting Pine, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rock Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30577. The Survey maps it on the Avalon quadrangle.

Fighting Pine within Stephens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

422 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 422 fires within 5 miles of Fighting Pine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 580 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 79 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 burning201
Arson/incendiarism79
Equipment and vehicle use49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural3

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 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Smoking1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephens 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 Fighting Pine: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Cox ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fighting Pine in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2019HailFighting Pine-Spotter and county comms reported quarter size hail just east of Toccoa.
August 2013Flash FloodFighting Pine-A home was flooded by Toms Creek along Turner Road. The occupants had to be rescued. Highway 17 was reported to be flooded near Eastanollee, especially around Oggs Branch.
May 2011HailFighting Pine-Quarter size hail was reported about 3.5 miles southeast of Toccoa.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFighting Pine-County comms reported mutliple trees blown down between Wolfpit Rd and Williams Circle, with most of the trees down along Rock Creek Rd.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFighting Pine-Trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
Jarrett3.1 miles18
Eastanollee3.1 miles17
Hayes Crossing3.4 miles17
Fowlertown4.1 miles17
Toccoa4.7 miles17
Union Hill4.8 miles17
Carnes Creek4.8 miles17
Fairview4.9 miles18

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 Q122556354The 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 327814. 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.