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Macland, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Powder Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30127. The Survey maps it on the Lost Mountain quadrangle.

Macland within Cobb 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Macland between 1992 and 2019, burning about 178 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 37 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 burning57
Arson/incendiarism37
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PAULDING-004
22 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Macland: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron-Pyrite, Sulfur. 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
D. Ragsdale ProspectIron-PyriteOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Don Watson ProspectSulfurProspect
J.B.Kemp's Property (Hathaway Property)GoldPast ProducerVein
Mason MineGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Cobb County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Macland in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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
September 2000LightningMacland$100,000The Marietta Daily Journal reported that lightning started a fire in an empty house that had just been built and was for sale. The house was unoccupied at the time of the incident. A firefighter was injured in the process of extinguishing the fire.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMacland$5,000The Cobb County 911 center reported a few trees blown down from Powder Springs and Jim R. Miller State Park areas to south Sandy Plains.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMacland-Report of tree down at Gaydon Rd SW and Brand Rd SW.
July 2002HailMacland-A storm spotter reported dime size hail. One tree was also blown down on Macland Road.

Every storm recorded in Cobb 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
McEachern Woods1.4 miles17
Country Lake1.7 miles17
Wynford Chase2.2 miles17
Cross Creek Estates2.2 miles17
Powder Springs3.0 miles20
Lost Mountain3.1 miles17
Quails Nest3.4 miles19
Arbor Forest3.6 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326383. 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.