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Flying S Ranchettes, Georgia

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

Flying S Ranchettes within Douglas County

On record in Flying S Ranchettes

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 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

262 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Flying S Ranchettes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 751 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 88 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 burning91
Arson/incendiarism88
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Equipment and vehicle use15
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking11
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor18 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1993Debris and open burning5.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Flying S Ranchettes: 7 past producers, 5 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron-Pyrite, Sulfur, Gold, Copper. 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
Choran ProspectMicaProspect
Jenny Stone ProspectIron-Pyrite, ZincOccurrenceGossan
Keaten-Thomas ProspectIron-Pyrite, Gold, CopperOccurrenceGossan
Villa RicaIron-Pyrite, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelOccurrenceStratabound Concordant Massive Sulfide
Villa Rica Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Keaton-Thomas ProspectSulfurProspect
Villa Rica MineSulfurPast Producer
A. C. Watkins ProspectIron-Pyrite, GoldOccurrencePyrite
Lasseter ProspectIron-PyritePast ProducerPyrite
Chambers MineGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Ephesus Heights3.5 miles17
Winston4.0 miles17
White City4.9 miles17
Daniell Mill Estates5.7 miles17
White Oak Estates5.8 miles17
Gregory Heights6.0 miles17
Blain Woods6.0 miles17
Executive Heights6.2 miles17

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 Q122569528The 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 1686487. 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.