John Ross Estates, Georgia

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.

• John Ross HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973 · 0.3 miles away
• US Post Office-Rossville Mainlisted 1986 · 0.6 miles away

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.

• 1886 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Catoosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1892 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1936 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000
• 1942 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1982 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of John Ross Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 576 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 62 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Georgia Acres
• Rossville
• Beverly Hills
• Cannon Crossing
• Dewberry Town
• Lytle

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of John Ross Estates: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Walker County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 354088. 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.