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Madola, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Higdon-Mobile census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30513. It stands on Patterson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Epworth quadrangle.

Madola within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

284 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Madola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 521 acres in total. 5 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 burning178
Arson/incendiarism37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
16 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestCASHES VALLEY
28 August 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2002Debris and open burning5.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FANNIN-001
31 July 1993Debris and open burning8.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-FANNIN-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Madola: 6 prospects, 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sulfur, Copper, Copper, Iron-Pyrite, Copper, 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
Mine No. 20Copper, Iron-PyriteOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Mine No. 20IronPast ProducerResidual
MobileCopper, SulfurPast Producer1858
Mount Pisgah ProspectSulfur, CopperOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Bryant ProspectCopperProspect
Kellogg ProspectCopperProspect
Mine No. 20CopperPast Producer
Mount Pisgah Copper ProspectCopperProspect
Patterson ProspectCopperProspect
Phillips ProspectCopperProspect

Every working recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Madola in 5 storm reports between 2018 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMadola$15,000The Fannin County Emergency Manager reported several trees and power lines blown down from west of Epworth along Madola Road to Blue Ridge Road in Epworth to Haymore Farm Road southeast of Mineral Bluff. A falling tree struck a house on Blue Ridge Road, no injuries were reported.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMadola$10,000Tree down on a house in the 300 block of No. 20 Mine road in McCaysville.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindMadola$8,000The Fannin County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down across the county from the Old Mobile Road area near McCaysville, across Blue Ridge to the area around Stanley Creek Road and Aska Road south of Blue Ridge.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMadola$2,000EM reported two trees down near Mill Creek Acres and at Mobile Rd at Madola Rd.
July 2023HailMadola-Estimated 1 inch hail along 4000 block of Mobile Rd.

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Lickskillet1.2 miles21
Dunn1.9 miles21
Higdon2.2 miles21
Chestnut Gap2.4 miles21
Pierceville2.5 miles21
Epworth2.8 miles21
Oasis2.9 miles21
Galloway Mill3.0 miles21

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 Q122556401The 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 332304. 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.