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Fountainville, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Oglethorpe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31068. The Survey maps it on the Ideal South quadrangle. It stands 463 feet above sea level.

Fountainville within Macon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Fountainville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,097 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 20 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 burning135
Equipment and vehicle use25
Arson/incendiarism20
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking6

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
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance7.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MACON005
7 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Debris and open burning6.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MACON004
4 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1996Debris and open burning5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Fountainville: 7 prospects, 6 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin, Aluminum, Kaolin. 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
Holloway PropertyAluminum, KaolinProspect
Clark PropertyKaolin, AluminumProspect
English MineAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
Gammage PropertyAluminum, KaolinProspect
Ideal MineAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
Mcmichael MineAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
Unnamed DepositKaolin, AluminumProspect
Unnamed DepositKaolin, AluminumProspect
Andersonville WorksAluminumPast Producer
E.J. Kleckley PropertyAluminumProspect

Every working recorded in Macon 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
Bartlett4.2 miles8
Clearview5.0 miles7
Oglethorpe5.1 miles8
Cutoff5.5 miles8
Ideal6.2 miles7
Travelers Rest6.8 miles8
Montezuma7.0 miles8
Spalding8.5 miles8

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.

Wikipedia article on FountainvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29132157The 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 326292. 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.