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Holly Springs, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Holly Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30115. The Survey maps it on the South Canton quadrangle. 16,213 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.

Holly Springs within Cherokee County

Population over time

2 figures

Holly Springs grew from 9,189 to 16,213 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20109,189
202016,213+7,024 (+76%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

399 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 399 fires within 5 miles of Holly Springs between 1992 and 2018, burning about 751 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 100 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 burning133
Arson/incendiarism100
Misuse of fire by a minor47
Railroad operations and maintenance39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use21
Recreation and ceremony18
Smoking11
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
7 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHEROKEE-003
6 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CHEROKEE-025
27 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Holly Springs: 18 past producers, 11 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Iron-Pyrite. 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
Rich MineSulfur-Pyrite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Rich Mine (Canton Mine)Copper, Iron-PyriteOccurrenceChalcopyrite
Blankenship Sand DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Blankenship Sand DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dean MineMicaPast Producer
Hause MinesMicaPast Producer
J B Wheeler ProspectMicaProspect
J D Hillhouse MinesMicaPast Producer
R M Reece ProspectMicaProspect
Wacaster MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Univeter1.5 miles22
Lebanon2.2 miles22
South Canton3.0 miles22
Andersonville3.1 miles20
Cherokee3.7 miles22
Mill Creek Crossing3.7 miles23
Southern Oaks3.8 miles23
Sunny Brook4.1 miles23

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 Holly SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1940673The 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 315567. 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.