Klondike, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Gainesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30507. The Survey maps it on the Chestnut Mountain quadrangle.

Klondike within Hall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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 Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Chestnut Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Chestnut Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

205 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of Klondike between 1992 and 2019, burning about 431 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 34 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	108
Arson/incendiarism	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Smoking	11
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	5

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
9 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-HALL-001
8 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	8.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JACKSON-003
25 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-HALL-002
13 September 1993	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HALL-004
10 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hall 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 Klondike: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gainsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Hall County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hall 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
Candler	1.0 miles	15
Belmont	1.1 miles	15
Tanner Mill	1.3 miles	15
Bolman Estates	1.5 miles	15
Bretton Woods	2.4 miles	15
Marlette Heights	2.7 miles	15
Alandale	2.8 miles	15
Eaglewood	3.0 miles	15

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 Klondike	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60789617	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 326356. 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.