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Indian Springs, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Flovilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30216. It stands on Aboothlacoosta Creek. The Survey maps it on the Indian Springs quadrangle.

Indian Springs within Butts County

On record in Indian Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Indian Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 956 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 15 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 burning144
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Smoking19
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony7

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
30 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MONROE-013
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance21 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butts County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Indian Springs: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar. 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
Westbrooks ProspectMica, FeldsparProspect
Smith MineMicaPast Producer

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
Flovilla1.4 miles12
Sandy2.4 miles14
Bibb (historical)2.9 miles12
Iron Springs Crossroads3.4 miles12
Cork3.5 miles14
Pepperton3.7 miles12
Jackson4.3 miles12
Elgin (historical)4.6 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q49354428The 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 356329. 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.