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Hills, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Clarkesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30523. It stands on Law Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clarkesville quadrangle.

Hills within Habersham County

On record in Hills

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 4 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

280 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 28 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 burning185
Arson/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use15
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking6
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
8 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Debris and open burning7.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HABERSHAM001
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Habersham County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hills: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Iron, Kyanite. 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
Clarksville District Kyn OccurrenceKyanitePast Producer1932
Piedmont College FarmIronPast ProducerResidual
H. WoodsGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Nichols PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Habersham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Habersham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stamborough QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Habersham County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hills in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 2018Thunderstorm WindHills-County comms reported a tree blown down with power outages at the intersection of Old Highway 441 at Abbington way and at Old 441 and Thacker Rd. Another tree was down at the Orchard Rd and Orchard Dr.
June 2011HailHills-Quarter to golf ball size hail fell from the north side of Clarkesville to Demorest. Golf ball size hail broke a car windshield in Clarkesville.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHills-A couple of trees were blown down near the intersection of Walls Bridge Rd and New Liberty Rd.

Every storm recorded in Habersham 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
Clarkesville1.0 miles18
Habersham Station (historical)1.2 miles18
Soquee (historical)1.5 miles18
Bert (historical)1.9 miles18
Dixon Crossroads2.0 miles19
Shorts Mill2.3 miles18
Habersham2.4 miles18
Demorest2.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 351396. 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.