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Little Creek Farms, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dallas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30132. It stands on Weaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yorkville quadrangle.

Little Creek Farms within Paulding County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

443 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 443 fires within 5 miles of Little Creek Farms between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,547 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 144 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 burning188
Arson/incendiarism144
Railroad operations and maintenance30
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony13
Natural5
Smoking4

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
6 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Arson/incendiarism6.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Paulding County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Little Creek Farms: 8 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur, Mica, Iron-Pyrite, Zinc. 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
Gamel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Little Bob MineCopper, Iron-Pyrite, Zinc, Nickel, CobaltPast Producer1860, 1920
Turner ProspectMica, FeldsparProspect
Shirley MineIron-Pyrite, ZincOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Berg ProspectSulfurProspect
Henry Winn MineSulfurPast Producer
Imel PitMicaOccurrence
Poole ProspectMicaProspect
Rush-Banks ProspectSulfurProspect
Dr. Parker's PropertyGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Paulding 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
Pumpkin1.0 miles16
Plantation Estates1.2 miles17
Piney Woods Manor1.4 miles17
Mountain Trace1.8 miles17
McPherson1.9 miles16
Cobb Estates2.0 miles17
Hart Circle2.0 miles17
Dallas2.0 miles17

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 Q122561165The 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 349874. 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.