Luckie, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mount Zion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30108. It stands on Maple Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bowdon East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Luckie within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1889 USGS Tallapoosa quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Tallapoosa quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Tallapoosa quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Carrollton quadrangle1:62500
1973 USGS Bowdon East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Anniston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Luckie (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 917 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 92 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 burning	95
Arson/incendiarism	92
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	13
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CARROLL-007
30 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-CARROLL-001
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Smoking	6.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Jake	2.7 miles	15
Burwell	3.0 miles	15
Mount Zion	3.1 miles	15
Jonesville	3.8 miles	15
High Point	3.9 miles	15
Bowdon	5.3 miles	16
Plowshare (historical)	5.5 miles	15
Cedar Valley	5.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 349628. 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.