Hurst, Georgia

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Morganton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30560. It stands on Crawford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wilscot quadrangle.

Hurst within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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.

1888 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1911 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1935 USGS Wilscot quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Wilscot quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Wilscot quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Wilscot quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

258 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 258 fires within 5 miles of Hurst between 1992 and 2020, burning about 870 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 69 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	140
Arson/incendiarism	69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1

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
29 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	SKEENAH GAP
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	SANDY BOTTOM FIRE
23 August 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-FANNIN-001
21 July 2011	Other causes	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	CABIN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Craytonia	1.6 miles	25
Padena	1.8 miles	25
Hemp	3.1 miles	23
Bryan Mill	4.0 miles	23
Morganton	4.2 miles	23
Wilscot	4.3 miles	25
Sparks Mill	4.4 miles	23
Mashburn Mill	4.4 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332046. 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.