Happy Valley, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Thomson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30824. It stands on Sweetwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bowdens Pond quadrangle.

Happy Valley within McDuffie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1922 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Harlem quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Bowdens Pond quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

328 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Happy Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 835 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 20 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	205
Smoking	23
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	20
Natural	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Recreation and ceremony	8

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
8 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021MCDUFFIE002
6 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2005	Debris and open burning	7.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WARREN011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDuffie County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Happy Valley: 7 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Warren County Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
D.J. James Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
May's Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Palmer Mine	Clay	Producer
Purvis Mine	Clay	Producer
Bowden Pit	Kaolin	Occurrence
Bowden Pit	Kaolin	Producer
Georgia Kaolin Pit	Kaolin	Occurrence
Hinton Mine	Kaolin	Occurrence
Hinton Mine	Kaolin	Producer

Every working recorded in McDuffie 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
Autney	1.9 miles	15
Megahee	3.6 miles	15
Boneville	5.0 miles	15
Adamsville	5.1 miles	16
Dearing	5.4 miles	15
Avondale	7.4 miles	17
Thomson	7.6 miles	10
Stones Crossroads	11.1 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348766. 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.