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.
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.
Pool's Mill Covered Bridgelisted 1975 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Matt quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Matt quadrangle1:24000
- 1999 USGS Matt quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
179 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 94 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 35 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
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 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1993 | Smoking | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-FORSYTH-003 |
| 10 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 August 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-CHEROKEE-004 |
| 30 August 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creighton Mine | Gold, Cobalt | Past Producer | ||
| Franklin-Creighton Mine | Gold, Cobalt, Copper | Past Producer | 1841, 1909 | |
| Unnamed Barium Deposit | Barium-Barite | Occurrence | ||
| Bennett Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Harrison Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Mcbrayer Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Cox Prospect | Gold | Prospect | ||
| W.T. Fowler Placer | Gold | Past Producer | Vein |
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Hail | Heardville | $4,760,000 | Broadcast media and the public reported golf ball sized hail northwest of Cumming. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heardville | $25,000 | The 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 2008 | Flood | Heardville | $1,000 | The 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hightower | 2.1 miles | 22 | |
| Ducktown | 2.6 miles | 21 | |
| Matt | 4.6 miles | 22 | |
| Drew | 5.1 miles | 21 | |
| Dunn | 6.5 miles | 21 | |
| The Polo Fields | 6.7 miles | 21 | |
| Pirkle Woods | 6.9 miles | 21 | |
| Cumming | 7.2 miles | 21 |
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 Q122564448 | The 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.









