Green Crossing, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Flowery Branch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30518. The Survey maps it on the Flowery Branch quadrangle.

Green Crossing within Hall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1891 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Flowery Branch quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Flowery Branch quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Green Crossing between 1992 and 2018, burning about 353 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 38 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 burning	53
Arson/incendiarism	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	4

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	6.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HALL-005
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2002	Natural	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GWINNETT-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hall County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Green Crossing: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Atlantic Steel/ Cartersville, Ga.	Iron	Producer
Banks Property	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Friendship Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Hall 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Beard	0.2 miles	16
Lake Forest	1.2 miles	16
Gay Lan	1.2 miles	16
Johnson	1.9 miles	16
Woodbridge	2.3 miles	16
Roberts Crossroads	2.4 miles	16
Woodlake	2.4 miles	16
Misty Cove	2.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1686946. 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.