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Lily Pond, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Calhoun census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30701. It stands on Lynn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Calhoun South quadrangle.

Lily Pond within Gordon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

368 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 368 fires within 5 miles of Lily Pond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,040 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 107 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 burning150
Arson/incendiarism107
Equipment and vehicle use56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking6
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-GORDON-007
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-GORDON-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon 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 Lily Pond: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, Iron. 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
Floyd PropertyBarium-BaritePast Producer
Painter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
R T Dempsey ProspectIronOccurrence
Plainville Brick Co Pits No. 2ClayPast Producer
Universal Ceramics PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Gordon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lily Pond in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 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
September 2014Flash FloodLily Pond$2,000The Gordon County Emergency Manager reported small drainage creeks out of their banks around 5 miles south of Calhoun and were flooding portions of some roads.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLily Pond$1,000Emergency Manager reported power lines blown down at the 500 block of Harris Beamer Rd SW.

Every storm recorded in Gordon 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
McDaniels1.5 miles19
Blackwood3.0 miles19
Reeves3.7 miles17
Oostanaula4.7 miles17
Calhoun4.7 miles19
Plainville4.9 miles17
Farmville5.8 miles19
Echota6.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332215. 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.