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Macedonia, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Lathemtown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30115. The Survey maps it on the Ball Ground East quadrangle.

Macedonia within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Macedonia between 1992 and 2019, burning about 442 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 42 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 burning125
Arson/incendiarism42
Smoking16
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
8 September 1993Smoking2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2005Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Macedonia: 12 past producers, 6 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Iron-Pyrite, 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
Dickens ProspectCopper, Iron-PyritePast ProducerMassive Sulfide
James M.Quarles PropertyIronOccurrence
Unnamed Barium DepositBarium-BariteOccurrence
Smith ProspectIron-PyriteOccurrenceVein
Cook MineMicaPast Producer
F M Williams ProspectMicaProspect
J T Haley MineMicaPast Producer
Burty No. 2GoldProspectVein
Cox ProspectGoldProspect
F. Burt'sGoldProspectVein

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Macedonia in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 hail. 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
February 2000HailMacedonia-The county Sheriff reported a little larger than dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
White City0.9 miles20
Orange1.0 miles21
Harmony2.5 miles20
Lathemtown2.9 miles19
Buffington3.3 miles20
Carmichael Crossroads3.4 miles20
Free Home3.9 miles19
Union Hill4.2 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on MacedoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6723047The 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 332297. 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.