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Goldmine, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Royston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30520. It stands on Pruitt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Royston quadrangle.

Goldmine within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Goldmine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 358 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 burning102
Equipment and vehicle use30
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 1997Debris and open burning4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HART-007
4 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN006
23 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HART-006
19 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2005Debris and open burning5.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Goldmine: 7 past producers, 6 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold. 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
Brown Mine (Kings Mount Gold Mine)GoldPast ProducerVein
Ginn PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Hays PropertyGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Winter PropertyGoldProspectPlacer
Banister MineMicaPast Producer
Bromer Ayers DepositMicaOccurrence
Garner MineMicaPast Producer
Green Rose MineMicaPast Producer
Horse Head MineMicaPast Producer
Hubert Creek DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

10 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goldmine in 10 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindGoldmine$60,000EM reported about a half dozen homes damaged in southern hart county, two by falling trees and the others with roofs partially torn off. Numerous trees were also blown down. Sporadic damage began on Airline-Goldmine Rd, with a damage swath increasing in intensity as it moved east across the Highway 29 corridor and Zion CME Church Rd, and was most concentrated around Liberty Hill Rd and Page Rd.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGoldmine$20,000County comms and newspaper reported dozens of trees blown down across Hart County, and the roof torn off of a large shed on Elberton Highway near Hartwell.
August 2023Tornado (EF0)Goldmine-NWS storm survey determined a tornado that touched down in Franklin County crossed into Hart County on the south side of Royston, and continued moving southeast through the western part of the county, essentially paralleling Highway 17. The tornado crossed into Elbert County just west of the highway. Damage remained limited to uprooted trees and large snapped limbs in Hart County.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGoldmine-County comms reported multiple trees blown down along Goldmine Rd and Frank Kelly Rd.
June 2014Flash FloodGoldmine-County comms reported multiple small creeks rose out of their banks and flooded several roads, including Ginns Pool Rd (8.5 WSW Hartwell), Bakers Bridge Rd (9.5 WSW), Old Elbert Rd (11 WSW), and Deerfield Ct (11.5 WSW) after 3 to 5 inches of rain fell in a short period of time.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGoldmine-Multiple trees and some power lines were blown down across the county, with one tree on a house on the north side of Hartwell.
July 2013Flash FloodGoldmine-Bond Kelley Road was flooded and closed by a stream.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGoldmine-Multiple trees were blown down along highway 172 in extreme southern Hart County.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGoldmine-Two trees were blown down across Kay Nursery Rd.
August 2011HailGoldmine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Eagle Grove2.1 miles14
Royston3.4 miles14
Vanna3.7 miles14
Reeds4.7 miles14
Canon5.1 miles14
Flat Shoals5.5 miles13
Bio6.0 miles13
Bowersville6.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331836. 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.