Goat Town, Georgia

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.

• 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Deepstep quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Goat Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 711 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 9 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Deepstep
• Hebron
• Brook Springs
• Kaolin
• Tabernacle

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 79 workings within 5 miles of Goat Town: 33 producers, 26 prospects, 14 past producers, 5 occurrences. 34 still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Clay, Aluminum, Kaolin, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Washington County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331827. 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.