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Funkhouser, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the White-Pine Log census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30139. It lies near Johnson Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle.

Funkhouser within Bartow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Funkhouser between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,588 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 80 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 burning101
Arson/incendiarism80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking1

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 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BARTOW-024
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Arson/incendiarism15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartow 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 Funkhouser: 9 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Funkhouser Co QuarryClayPast Producer
Sugar HillIron, ManganeseUnknown1954
Upshire QuarryStonePast Producer
Aggregate QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
P M Tate MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bennett MineIronPast Producer
H.M. Shellhorse PropertyIronOccurrence
Jj Bennett Property Mine-Lot 296Iron, ManganesePast Producer
L.P. Byrd PropertyIronPast Producer
No Name-Lot 283 MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bartow 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
Bolivar1.3 miles20
Pine Log3.4 miles20
Rydal3.6 miles20
Gum Springs4.9 miles19
Sugar Hill (historical)5.3 miles20
Dewey Crossroads6.2 miles19
Folsom6.7 miles19
Sophia (historical)7.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355969. 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.