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Lamplighter Square, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Carrollton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30117. It stands on Curtis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carrollton quadrangle.

Lamplighter Square within Carroll County

On record in Lamplighter Square

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 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Lamplighter Square between 1992 and 2019, burning about 653 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 53 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 burning93
Arson/incendiarism53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony14
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking7
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
8 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CARROLL-006
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lamplighter Square: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Nickel, Cobalt, Cobalt, Nickel. 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
(Facility) Carrollton Copper SmelterCopperPlant
Reeds MountainGold, Nickel, CobaltPast ProducerSulfide Segregations
Reeds Mountain ProspectCobalt, NickelOccurrence
UnnamedIronUnknown
Stacy MineGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Carroll 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
Carrollton0.8 miles16
Riverbend1.7 miles16
Greene Valley Estates1.7 miles16
Leisure Heights1.9 miles16
Pine Ridge Estates1.9 miles16
Knob Hill2.1 miles16
Holly Heights2.1 miles16
Castlegate East2.3 miles16

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 Q122561627The 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 349615. 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.