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Kensington, Georgia

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Kensington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30707. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kensington quadrangle.

Kensington within Walker County

On record in Kensington

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

11 surveys from 26 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

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Kensington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 901 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 67 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 burning130
Arson/incendiarism67
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2019Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WALKER002
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism114 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use24 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Kensington: 13 past producers, 1 prospect, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Horine Development Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Patton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cassandra AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Estelle Mining CompIronPast Producer
Glenn ProspectIronProspect
Kensington Iron and Coal Co. MineIronPast Producer
Kensington Iron and Coal Co. MineIronPast Producer
Kensington Iron and Coal Co. MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kensington in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2002: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2001Thunderstorm WindKensington$7,000An amateur radio operator reported that a tin roof was blown off a barn and several trees were uprooted.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindKensington$2,000The Walker county Emergency Management Director reported that a small metal shed was blown down, a few shingles were blown off roofs, and a few trees were blown down.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindKensington$500A road was blocked due to downed trees from thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hall Mill1.1 miles26
Davis Crossroads1.3 miles26
Cassandra1.5 miles25
Frick Gap (historical)1.9 miles25
Estelle Station (historical)1.9 miles26
Cooper Heights2.4 miles25
Estelle2.5 miles25
Valley Head3.0 miles25

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.

Wikipedia article on KensingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6391405The 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 332139. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.