Jewelville, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Homer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30521. The Survey maps it on the Homer quadrangle.

Jewelville within Banks County

On record in Jewelville

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

William Chambers Houselisted 1996 · 0.9 miles away
Nails Creek Historic Districtlisted 1996 · 0.5 miles away

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 Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Homer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Jewelville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 367 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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	79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
28 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN005
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-008
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BANKS-002
6 August 2008	Natural	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-FRANKLIN-001
19 August 1999	Debris and open burning	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Banks 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
Odis Crossroads	1.6 miles	14
Mount Pleasant	2.1 miles	14
Carlan	2.6 miles	14
Pinefield Crossroads	3.9 miles	14
Pruitt	4.2 miles	14
Arp	4.5 miles	14
Uvena	5.0 miles	14
Homer	5.7 miles	14

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 Q122550424

The 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 326343. 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.