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Heardville, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Cumming census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30028. It stands on Yellow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Matt quadrangle.

Heardville within Forsyth County

On record in Heardville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Heardville between 1992 and 2018, burning about 356 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 35 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 burning94
Arson/incendiarism35
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Smoking10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural4

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 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1993Smoking2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FORSYTH-003
10 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHEROKEE-004
30 August 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forsyth County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Heardville: 4 prospects, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Barium-Barite, Cobalt, Copper. 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
Creighton MineGold, CobaltPast Producer
Franklin-Creighton MineGold, Cobalt, CopperPast Producer1841, 1909
Unnamed Barium DepositBarium-BariteOccurrence
Bennett ProspectMicaProspect
Harrison ProspectMicaProspect
Mcbrayer ProspectMicaProspect
Cox ProspectGoldProspect
W.T. Fowler PlacerGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Forsyth County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heardville in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013HailHeardville$4,760,000Broadcast media and the public reported golf ball sized hail northwest of Cumming.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindHeardville$25,000The Forsyth County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down north of Cumming from Pleasant Grove road to Holtzclaw Road. A barn was destroyed on Holtzclaw road.
December 2008FloodHeardville$1,000The Forsyth County Emergency Management Director reported that minor flooding occurred along portions of Yellow Creek and Settingdown Creek between Wallace-Tatum and Hurt Bridge Roads. Damage was confined to minor debris cleanup.

Every storm recorded in Forsyth 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
Hightower2.1 miles22
Ducktown2.6 miles21
Matt4.6 miles22
Drew5.1 miles21
Dunn6.5 miles21
The Polo Fields6.7 miles21
Pirkle Woods6.9 miles21
Cumming7.2 miles21

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122564448The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331944. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.