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Friendship, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Macedonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30546. It stands on Burch Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hiawassee quadrangle.

Friendship within Towns County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,551 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 30 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 burning173
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism30
Smoking12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Fireworks1

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 September 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestIVY RIDGE
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
18 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceSNEAKING CREEK
12 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TOWNS-001
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Towns 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 Friendship: 4 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Iron-Pyrite, Corundum, Manganese. 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
Bell Mtn Silica MineSilicaPast Producer
Berrong Prospect (Johnson Copper Prospect)Copper, Iron-PyriteOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Bumgarner ProspectClayProspect
Cynth Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hog Creek Corundum MineCorundumPast Producer
Mcconell EstateManganesePast Producer1919
Kerby ProspectGoldProspectVein
Malden ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Towns 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
Cedar Cliff1.2 miles24
Red Banks1.8 miles24
Campagne (historical)1.9 miles24
Hunt (historical)1.9 miles24
Hiawassee1.9 miles24
Sunnyside2.2 miles24
Beech Cove Vista3.0 miles22
Young Harris3.8 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331775. 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.