Igo, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Redbud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30734. It stands on Marlowe Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Igo within Gordon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1890 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000
1896 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1947 USGS Waleska quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Waleska quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

251 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Igo (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,189 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 99 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	100
Arson/incendiarism	99
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	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
8 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-GORDON-002
5 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019PICKENS001
20 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Igo (historical): 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Aggregate Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
P M Tate Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
H.M. Shellhorse Property	Iron	Occurrence
L.P. Byrd Property	Iron	Past Producer
Unnamed Iron Deposit	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Gordon 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
Ranger	1.3 miles	19
Bobo	1.7 miles	19
Ryo	2.6 miles	19
Fairmount	3.2 miles	19
Colima	4.2 miles	19
Fambro (historical)	4.2 miles	19
Yarbroughs Mill	5.2 miles	19
Oakman	5.8 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334468. 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.