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Landrum, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Blacks Mill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30534. It stands on Lilly Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dawsonville quadrangle.

Landrum within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

425 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 425 fires within 5 miles of Landrum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 596 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 97 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 burning230
Arson/incendiarism97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony23
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural6
Smoking5

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 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019LUMPKIN002
22 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Landrum: 18 prospects, 18 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Barium-Barite. 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
Branden PropertyBarium-BariteProspect
Whatley PropertyBarium-BaritePast Producer
BarlowGold, SilverProspectVein And Placer
Battle Branch MineGold, SilverPast ProducerVein
BelleGold, SilverProspectVein And Placer
GordonGold, SilverProspectVein And Placer
Josephine (Auraria)Gold, SilverProspectVein And Placer
Whim HillGold, SilverProspectVein And Placer
AmicalolaGoldProspectVein, Some Placers
Baby Pl.GoldProspectVein, Some Placers

Every working recorded in Dawson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Landrum in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2004: 1 hail, 1 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
July 2004Thunderstorm WindLandrum$1,000The Dawson County 911 center reported that several trees were blown down along Georgia Highway 400 near the Lumpkin County line.
May 2001HailLandrum-The Dawson County Emergency Management Director witnessed golf ball size hail for several minutes in a rural area near the Forsyth county line, about 3 miles southeast of Lumpkin in extreme southeast Forsyth county.

Every storm recorded in Dawson 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
Dougherty3.3 miles18
Lumpkin3.4 miles19
Dawsonville5.3 miles18
McKee7.2 miles19
Silver City7.5 miles19
Barrettsville8.9 miles22
Juno10.2 miles19
Hubbardsville12.1 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332181. 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.