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Fouts Mill, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bill Arp census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30135. It stands on Little Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winston quadrangle.

Fouts Mill within Douglas 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Fouts Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 619 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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 burning44
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Natural2

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
5 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-DOUGLAS-001
31 August 1993Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2012Natural4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-DOUGLAS-001
4 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 2006Recreation and ceremony2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-DOUGLAS-002
26 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fouts Mill: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Circle P Ranch Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
No NameGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

5 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fouts Mill in 5 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindFouts Mill$1,000Tree down across roadway at intersection of dorsett shoals rd and yeager rd.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindFouts Mill$1,000Tree downed across roadway at intersection of dorsett shoals rd and yeager rd.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindFouts Mill$1,000Em reports tree down at mayeske blvd and duncan memorial hwy.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFouts Mill$1,000Tree and wires down near the intersection of Yeager Road and Carroll Drive.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindFouts Mill-Multiple trees down along GA Hwy 166 and West Chapel Hill Road.

Every storm 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
Shallowford Heights0.9 miles17
Kings Point1.2 miles17
Worthington Estates1.4 miles17
Orchard Park1.5 miles17
Aline Estates1.5 miles17
Oakdale Estates1.6 miles17
Kings West1.8 miles17
West Lake1.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331762. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.