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Love Hill, Georgia

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ringgold census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30736. It stands on Little Chickamauga Creek. The Survey maps it on the East Ridge quadrangle.

Love Hill within Catoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

580 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 580 fires within 5 miles of Love Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,196 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 81 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 burning299
Arson/incendiarism81
Equipment and vehicle use78
Smoking40
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony14
Natural11
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CATOOSA-008
8 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CATOOSA-005
8 September 1998Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CATOOSA-006
6 September 2002Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CATOOSA-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa 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 Love Hill: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnnamedIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fry QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Graysville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hales QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Catoosa County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Love Hill in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019LightningLove Hill$5,000The Catoosa County Emergency Manager reported an apartment fire caused by a lightning strike on Tennant Lane in Ringgold.
August 2013Flash FloodLove Hill$3,000The Catoosa County emergency manager reported two drainage branches flowing toward South Chickamauga Creek overflowed a portion of Boynton Drive and the intersection of Battlefield Parkway and Georgia Highway 2. Minor flooding occurred.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLove Hill$1,000The Catoosa County 911 center reported a tree blown down on Pollard Road near the intersection with Boynton Drive.
October 2014HailLove Hill-The public reported quarter-sized hail on Live Oak Road in Ringgold.

Every storm recorded in Catoosa 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
Scenic Hills0.8 miles28
Poplar Springs1.1 miles28
Ellie Spring1.1 miles28
East Boynton1.5 miles28
Ringgold2.0 miles27
Boynton2.4 miles28
Pleasant Grove2.6 miles28
Old Mill Trace2.7 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332272. 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.