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Lucius, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the North Gilmer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30522. It stands on Saltpeter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cashes Valley quadrangle.

Lucius within Gilmer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Lucius between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,504 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 36 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 burning120
Arson/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FANNIN001
5 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FANNIN-005
22 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GILMER-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilmer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Lucius: 9 past producers, 7 prospects, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Manganese, Iron, Manganese. 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
Lacey PropertyMarble, DimensionProspect
Searcy PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1919
Wishon Talc MineTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
A.J.Pinson PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence
Davis ProspectsManganesePast Producer1919
Margaret Robinson PropertyIron, ManganesePast Producer
McKinney Mine AreaIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Searcy PropertyIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Hackney PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
HoltGoldProspectPlacer

Every working recorded in Gilmer County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lucius in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 2 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLucius$6,000The public reported multiple trees and power lines blown down along Maxwell Road in the Cherry Log Creek area.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLucius$1,000Two tree down near the intersection of lucious road and highway 515.

Every storm recorded in Gilmer 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
Cherry Log1.6 miles23
Goose Island1.7 miles23
Burnett2.1 miles23
Higdon Mill (historical)2.2 miles23
Santaluca3.1 miles23
White Path4.0 miles23
Jones Mill (historical)4.2 miles23
Ai4.5 miles23

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 Q122589874The 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 332278. 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.