Kunsford, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31064. It stands on Newby Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Kunsford within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Kunsford (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 672 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 5 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	56
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JASPER003
11 September 2016	Natural	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JASPER-004
26 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	JASPER
14 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge	COMPARTMENT 4
24 July 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-JASPER-010
2 July 2011	Natural	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-JASPER-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Kunsford (historical): 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Athen Prospect	Vermiculite, Mica	Prospect
C H Greer Mine	Vermiculite	Past Producer
Arnall Prospect	Mica	Occurrence
Bell Cochran Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Feldspar Corp Jasper Quarry A	Feldspar	Past Producer
Feldspar Corp. Jasper Quarry B	Feldspar	Past Producer
Feldspar Corp/ Ga Mine & Plant	Feldspar	Plant

Every working recorded in Jasper 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
Gladesville	2.3 miles	14
McElheneys Crossroads	4.4 miles	14
Adgateville	4.5 miles	12
Hillsboro	5.1 miles	12
Goolsby	7.1 miles	12
Minneta	7.3 miles	11
Benton Crossing (historical)	8.2 miles	11
Monticello	8.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346155. 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.