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Masseyville, Georgia

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Kensington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30738. It lies near Kirkis Gulf. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Grove quadrangle.

Masseyville within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Masseyville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,056 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 63 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 burning128
Arson/incendiarism63
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Natural2
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
7 September 2010Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-003
6 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning15 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WALKER004
16 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-011
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WALKER-019
11 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WALKER-010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Masseyville: 17 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Dimension, Clay. 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
Halloysite MineClayPast Producer
Southern Iron and Steel Co QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Bibble MineIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Blake's Mine Et Al.IronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Cassandra AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Estelle Mining CompIronPast Producer
Kensington Iron and Coal Co. MineIronPast Producer
Kensington Iron and Coal Co. MineIronPast Producer
Kensington Iron and Coal Co. MineIronPast Producer
Kensington Iron and Coal Co. MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walker 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
Cedar Grove2.1 miles25
McCutchen (historical)4.9 miles25
Dillon (historical)5.0 miles25
Cassandra5.3 miles25
Davis Crossroads5.4 miles26
Kensington5.8 miles26
Frick Gap (historical)5.9 miles25
Mahan (historical)6.1 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332329. 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.