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Knotts Pointe, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Woodstock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30188. The Survey maps it on the Mountain Park quadrangle.

Knotts Pointe within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Knotts Pointe between 1992 and 2012, burning about 245 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 23 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 burning58
Arson/incendiarism23
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural4
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2011Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-CHEROKEE-005
10 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-CHEROKEE-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Knotts Pointe: 6 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Copper. 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
Ocoee MineCopperPast Producer
Daniels ProspectMicaProspect
M M Cole MineMicaPast Producer
Bailey PropertyGoldPast Producer1840
Green Placer/Mcclure/NunnalyGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Mcclure No.2GoldPast ProducerStream Placer
NunnalyGoldProspectPlacer
Van ProspectGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Colony Center0.3 miles23
Cherecobb Estates0.6 miles23
Bramble Oak0.6 miles23
Wiley Bridge Junction0.6 miles23
Colony Springs0.9 miles23
Knotts Landing1.0 miles23
Pioneer Crossing1.1 miles23
Rocky Creek1.1 miles23

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 Q122557331The 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 1705105. 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.