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Marblehill, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Nelson-Tate-Marble Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30143. It stands on Darnell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nelson quadrangle. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.

Marblehill within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

344 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 344 fires within 5 miles of Marblehill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,724 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 111 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 burning149
Arson/incendiarism111
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-PICKENS-017
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-PICKENS-016
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CHEROKEE-004
4 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-PICKENS-013
30 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minor2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2011Natural1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-PICKENS-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Marblehill: 16 past producers, 10 prospects, 6 producers, 5 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Mica, Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Duncan QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Burty No.1GoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Charcoal QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
North Georgia QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
RichardsGoldProspectPlacer
A.M.Darnell ProspectIronProspect
Grady Holbert PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual
Grady Holbert PropertyIronPast Producer
W.J. Hogan PropertyIronProspect
W.J. Hogan PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Pickens County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marblehill in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindMarblehill$25,000The Pickens and Cherokee County Emergency Management Directors report that a strong thunderstorm downburst had downed nearly 100 trees near the Cherokee county, near and just north of Tate. At least nine power poles were also down, including one main power transmission line. Several roads were blocked from downed trees.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMarblehill$20,000The public reported that two large trees were blown down across their driveway in the Cherokee Hills Subdivision destroying a vehicle.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindMarblehill$1,000The emergency manager relayed a report of a tree down 1 mile ne of marble hill.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMarblehill$1,000Large tree down on cove road near Fitts Rd.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMarblehill$1,000Per local emc there was a broken and downed powerline along mcclain mountain rd nw of marblehill georgia.
April 2005HailMarblehill$150The public observed penny-sized hail at a convenience store. The windshield of a car parked at the facility was cracked.
April 2025HailMarblehill-Quarter size hail was reported by trained ema spotter in marble hill.
February 2020Flash FloodMarblehill-The Emergency Manager reported water over Old Mill White Road due to high flow through East Branch Long Swamp Creek. Radar estimates indicate that 2.5 to 3.0 inches of rain occurred over the area, falling on already wet soils and resulting in flash flooding.
April 2006HailMarblehill-The Marblehill Post Office reported nickel-sized hail in Marblehill. While the storm weakened somewhat, it continued to produce hail as it moved into Dawson county. Penny-sized hail was reported on Georgia Highway 53 along the Pickens-Dawson county line.
March 1996HailMarblehill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pickens 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
Daniels1.7 miles20
Tate2.6 miles21
Holcomb3.2 miles20
Nelson3.8 miles20
Grandview5.4 miles21
Jasper5.5 miles21
Cagle5.6 miles21
Ruden6.3 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.

Wikipedia article on MarblehillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65122200The 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 332315. 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.