Hughesboro, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Cornelia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30531. It stands on Wooten Branch. The Survey maps it on the Baldwin quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hughesboro within Habersham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Baldwin quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Hughesboro (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 330 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 31 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	136
Arson/incendiarism	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	3
Natural	2

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 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BANKS-001
7 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	JUNKYARD
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BANKS-001
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HALL-005
12 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HABERSHAM-013
10 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Habersham County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hughesboro (historical): 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Crow (L.W. Bowen) Mine	Gold	Prospect	Placer, Some Vein Prospecting Also
Crow Heirs Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer
J. Loudermilk (J. Perkins)	Gold	Prospect	Placer, Some Vein Prospecting Also
Lymsden Property	Gold	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wilbanks Corner	2.3 miles	14
Longview	2.6 miles	14
Raoul	3.1 miles	14
Baldwin	3.8 miles	14
Cornelia	4.6 miles	18
Mount Airy	6.1 miles	18
Demorest	6.1 miles	18
Stottsville	7.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 351400. 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.