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Glenwood, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Armuchee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30165. The Survey maps it on the Rome North quadrangle.

Glenwood within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

249 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Glenwood between 1992 and 2019, burning about 718 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 88 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 burning99
Arson/incendiarism88
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural7
Smoking7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FLOYD-016
29 September 1995Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Debris and open burning2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Debris and open burning16 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FLOYD-015

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Glenwood: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Rome Quarry Fla Rock IndusStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Berry School Shale PitClayPast Producer
Rome City Shale QuarryClayPast Producer
Barnsley MinesAluminumPast Producer
Burney MineAluminumPast Producer
J T Waters MineAluminumPast Producer
Wright MineAluminumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Floyd 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
Sand Springs0.7 miles18
Riverside2.1 miles18
Green Acre2.2 miles18
Riverside Park2.3 miles18
Central Grove (historical)2.5 miles18
Summerville Park2.5 miles18
Mount Berry2.6 miles18
Berwin3.1 miles19

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 GlenwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19880029The 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 356036. 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.