Guild, Georgia

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the LaFayette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30728. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the LaFayette quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Guild within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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.

1886 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Catoosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1892 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1936 USGS Estelle quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Estelle quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1947 USGS Estelle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

480 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 480 fires within 5 miles of Guild (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,077 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 144 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	274
Arson/incendiarism	144
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
9 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WALKER-009
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	8.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WALKER-008
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Guild (historical): 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Aggregate Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Armington Mine	Aluminum	Past Producer
Hawkins Mine	Aluminum, Iron	Past Producer
Shinbone Ridge Area-C	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Shinbone Ridge-A	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Shinbone Ridge-B	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant

Every working recorded in Walker 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
Walnut Grove	0.6 miles	25
Martindale	1.3 miles	19
Mount Carmel	1.5 miles	25
Blaylock Mill	1.8 miles	25
Bronco	2.3 miles	25
Pledger Parkway	3.0 miles	25
Oakton	3.0 miles	19
Horse Lake Estates	3.1 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 354067. 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.