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Mars Hill Crossroads, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vienna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31092. The Survey maps it on the Pineview NW quadrangle.

Mars Hill Crossroads within Dooly County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Mars Hill Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 947 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 21 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 burning78
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
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
4 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2017Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-DOOLY-002
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DOOLY007
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DOOLY008
28 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2013Debris and open burning6.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-DOOLY-001
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2011Debris and open burning2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-DOOLY-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dooly County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mars Hill Crossroads in 2 storm reports in 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMars Hill Crossroads$3,000Public report of two trees down and minor damage to the awning of a home at the intersection of Coody Dairy Rd and Dooly High Rd.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMars Hill Crossroads-Mesonet station uga53 Vienna .

Every storm recorded in Dooly 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
Tippettville4.2 miles8
Findlay5.7 miles9
Pinehurst6.3 miles9
Vienna8.0 miles8
Unadilla8.8 miles10
Snow Spring9.7 miles8
Richwood9.7 miles8
Sugar Hill9.8 miles10

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 Mars Hill CrossroadsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65083072The 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 1704992. 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.

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.