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Five Points, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Carrollton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30180. It stands on Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Villa Rica quadrangle.

Five Points within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

234 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Five Points between 1992 and 2020, burning about 636 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 59 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 burning104
Arson/incendiarism59
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking8
Natural7

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
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CARROLL-008
16 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CARROLL-006
16 September 1999Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Five Points: 5 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron-Pyrite. 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
Keaten-Thomas ProspectIron-Pyrite, Gold, CopperOccurrenceGossan
Keaton-Thomas ProspectSulfurProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
Villa Rica QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
HartGoldProspectVein
HixonGoldPast ProducerVein
J.L.Davis PropertyGoldPast ProducerVein
Jones MineGoldPast ProducerVein
LassetterGoldProspectVein
No Name, Lot 77 2nd Dist.GoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Carroll 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
Ithaca1.0 miles17
Sand Hill2.2 miles17
Chestnut Hill (historical)2.8 miles17
Shady Grove4.2 miles15
Lang (historical)4.3 miles16
Driskolls4.6 miles17
Curtis4.7 miles16
Villa Rica4.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 314162. 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.