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Green, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rome census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30173. The Survey maps it on the Cedartown East quadrangle.

Green within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

754 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 754 fires within 5 miles of Green between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,497 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 442 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
Arson/incendiarism442
Debris and open burning218
Equipment and vehicle use33
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural7
Smoking5

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 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-POLK-003
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-POLK-008
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-POLK-002
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-POLK-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Green: 19 past producers, 18 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, 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
Ladd Lime and Stone Co PitsClayPast Producer
Couper PropertyManganesePast ProducerResidual
Hillyer PropertyManganeseProspect1919
Wood and Reynolds PropertyManganeseProspect1902
Albea and York MineIronPast Producer1892
Johnson PropertyIronPast Producer
T H Randall MineIronPast Producer
Warrick Iron PropertyIronPast Producer
Asbury MineAluminumPast Producer
Bradshaw 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
Brice1.5 miles19
Relay2.4 miles19
Reeseburg3.4 miles18
Wax4.5 miles18
Silvermont5.3 miles18
Ridgedale5.4 miles18
Ridgewood Estates5.8 miles18
Chulio5.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 353701. 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.