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Linesville, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rayle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30660. It stands on Hood Branch. The Survey maps it on the Celeste quadrangle.

Linesville within Wilkes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Linesville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 377 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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 burning48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism3

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
30 September 1994Debris and open burning2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2018Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019WILKES001
19 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WILKES-008
18 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WILKES-007
6 August 2002Debris and open burning7.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WILKES-002
5 August 2004Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 1999Natural4.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Linesville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Latimer Mine (Fairy Ridge)GoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Wilkes County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linesville in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 hail. 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
April 2017HailLinesville$44,000Golf ball size hail was reported by a CoCoRaHS observer near Rayle.

Every storm recorded in Wilkes 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
Thaxton (historical)1.7 miles12
Callaway2.4 miles12
Jacksons Crossroads3.4 miles12
Bessie (historical)3.5 miles12
New Town3.6 miles12
Chatfield (historical)3.9 miles12
Rayle4.2 miles12
Centerville4.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326370. 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.