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Forge Mill, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mineral Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30560. It stands on Pounding Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Culberson quadrangle.

Forge Mill within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

386 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 386 fires within 5 miles of Forge Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 516 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 63 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 burning244
Arson/incendiarism63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
23 September 1999Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FANNIN-002
30 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FANNIN-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Forge Mill: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica, Iron. 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
Mineral Bluff AreaIronPast ProducerStratabound Concordant
Mineral Bluff QuarryFlagstoneProducer
The W.M.Dallas MineMicaPast Producer
Dillard & Prince MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Samples Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
The Dickey PropertyMarble, DimensionOccurrence
The Park PropertyMarble, DimensionPast Producer
The Youngstone Creek PropertyMarble, DimensionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fannin 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
Lakewood0.9 miles23
Morganton1.4 miles23
Brown Mill2.1 miles23
Mineral Bluff2.2 miles23
Loving2.3 miles23
Cutcane3.0 miles23
Wright Mill3.1 miles23
Padena3.2 miles25

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 Q122556897The 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 331745. 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.