Lathemtown, Georgia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 19 shown

• Lathemtown Historic District, Bud and Alice Turner House, 11512 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Lathemtown Historic District, Bud and Sam Turner Mule Barn, 11512 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Lathemtown Historic District, Bud and Zona Heard House, 11718 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Lathemtown Historic District, E. Marvin and Georgia B. Lathem House, 11662 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Lathemtown Historic District, Elizabeth W. and Luther J. Lathem House, 120 Orange Church Circle, Lathemtownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Lathemtown Historic District, Elizabeth W. and Luther J. Lathem Rental House, 152 Orange Church Circle, Lathemtownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Lathemtown Historic District, Epperson Family Rental House II, 195 Trenton Lane, Lathemtownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Lathemtown Historic District, Epperson Family Rental House, 11511 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Lathemtown Historic District, Ethel W. and Charles W. Lathem House, 11582 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Lathemtown Historic District, George W. and Marie H. Lathem House, 11530 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Lathemtown Historic District, Jessie D. and W. Herbert Lathem Sr. House, 11546 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Lathemtown Historic District, Lathem Mule Barn, 11643 Cumming Highway (State Route 20), Lathemtownfederal building survey, 1 photograph

Every surveyed structure in Cherokee County

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.

• 1890 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Lathemtown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 341 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 32 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Free Home
• Orange
• Holbrook
• Macedonia
• White City
• Union Hill

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Lathemtown: 13 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Iron-Pyrite, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lathemtown in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332187. 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.