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Holland, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lyerly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30730. It stands on Pond Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rock Mountain quadrangle.

Holland within Chattooga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

389 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 389 fires within 5 miles of Holland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,488 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 195 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
Arson/incendiarism195
Debris and open burning148
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6

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 1998Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHATTOOGA-017
26 September 2019Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CHATTOOGA009
25 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CHATTOOGA-002

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 Holland: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Aluminum. 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
Culbertson MineAluminumPast Producer
Floyd County MineClayProducer
Lavender PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Chattooga County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holland in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHolland$5,000Multiple trees on the roadway near the intersection of hwy 100 and white farm rd.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHolland$1,000Report of tree down at Hwy 100 and Holland Chattoogaville Rd.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHolland$500The Chattooga county 911 center reported that a few trees were blown down on Georgia Highway 100 at Sprite in the extreme southern part of the county.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Taliaferro (historical)2.2 miles17
Lyerly3.9 miles17
Chattoogaville4.0 miles16
Poetry4.1 miles16
Cheney (historical)4.3 miles16
Sprite4.6 miles16
Silver Hill4.9 miles16
Berryton6.8 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on HollandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19880289The 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 328195. 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.