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Lost Mountain Woods, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dallas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30157. The Survey maps it on the Lost Mountain quadrangle.

Lost Mountain Woods within Paulding County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

340 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 340 fires within 5 miles of Lost Mountain Woods between 1992 and 2019, burning about 428 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 96 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 burning173
Arson/incendiarism96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-PAULDING-014
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PAULDING-012

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 Lost Mountain Woods: 6 past producers, 6 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Gold, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Berg ProspectIron-Pyrite, CopperOccurrencePyrite
Coggins and Smith ProspectIron-Pyrite, Sulfur, ZincOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
D. Ragsdale ProspectIron-PyriteOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Berg ProspectSulfurProspect
Don Watson ProspectSulfurProspect
Dr. Parker's PropertyGoldPast Producer
Henry Winn MineSulfurPast Producer
J. B. Kemp ProspectGoldPast Producer
J.B.Kemp's Property (Hathaway Property)GoldPast ProducerVein
Jack Moon Heirs ProspectSulfurProspect

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
Watson Glen0.3 miles17
Fox Ridge0.4 miles17
Cobb Crossing0.5 miles17
Powder Mill0.5 miles17
Brooks Farm0.5 miles17
Timberchase0.9 miles17
Hardy Hills1.0 miles17
Southfork1.1 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 Q122565421The 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 349876. 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.