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Hothouse, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Mineral Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30559. It stands on Dickey Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mineral Bluff quadrangle.

Hothouse within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 23 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

453 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 453 fires within 5 miles of Hothouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 640 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 77 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 burning277
Arson/incendiarism77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined53
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin 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 Hothouse: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Marble, Dimension, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. 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
J.Y.Allen PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect
Mineral Bluff QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Dillard & Prince MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mineral Bluff AreaIronPast ProducerStratabound Concordant
Samples Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
The Dickey PropertyMarble, DimensionOccurrence
The Park PropertyMarble, DimensionPast Producer
The Youngstone Creek PropertyMarble, DimensionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hothouse in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHothouse$3,000Trees and powerlines down along 2000 block of Douthit Rd in Mineral Bluff.

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Windy Ridge1.0 miles23
Union1.5 miles23
Pleasant Hill1.8 miles23
Curtis1.8 miles23
Mineral Bluff2.0 miles23
Galloway2.7 miles23
Coles Crossing2.9 miles23
Brown Mill3.1 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 HothouseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60768743The 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 332032. 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.