Haywood, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Little Sand Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30747. It stands on East Armuchee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Armuchee quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Haywood within Chattooga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1886 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000
1899 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Armuchee quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Rome quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Haywood (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,436 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 46 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	127
Arson/incendiarism	46
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CHATTOOGA006
7 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	TEEMS
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-FLOYD-015

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattooga 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 Haywood (historical): 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay, Kaolin. 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
Halloysite Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Northwest Georgia Bauxite	Kaolin	Producer	1883
Shropshtre Deposit 1	Aluminum	Prospect

Every working recorded in Chattooga 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
Zula (historical)	2.4 miles	16
Farmersville	2.5 miles	16
Kartah	4.5 miles	16
Subligna	4.8 miles	20
Gore	4.8 miles	16
Tidings	5.7 miles	16
Storys (historical)	6.1 miles	16
Shackelton (historical)	6.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 344455. 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.