Flat Shoals, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Reed Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30516. The Survey maps it on the Hartwell quadrangle.

Flat Shoals within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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
1959 USGS Hartwell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Abbeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Flat Shoals between 1992 and 2020, burning about 365 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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	119
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HART001
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-HART-002
19 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-HART-002
18 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HART-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Flat Shoals: 14 occurrences, 13 past producers, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, Feldspar. 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
Rowland Mine	Feldspar, Mica	Past Producer
Hays Property	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Unknown, Prospect	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Unknown, Prospect	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Winter Property	Gold	Prospect	Placer
Banister Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Bobo Deposit	Mica	Occurrence
Burco Deposit & R H Burns Deposit	Mica	Occurrence
Cole Deposit	Mica	Occurrence
Garner Mine	Mica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hart 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
Cross Roads	2.8 miles	15
Hartwell	2.9 miles	13
Mount Olivet	3.1 miles	14
Eagle Grove	4.2 miles	14
Maretts	4.7 miles	14
Bowersville	5.2 miles	14
Goldmine	5.5 miles	14
Bio	6.3 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326290. 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.