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Match, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Bowman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30624. It stands on Fork Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bowman quadrangle.

Match within Elbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

248 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Match between 1992 and 2020, burning about 419 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 31 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 burning138
Arson/incendiarism31
Equipment and vehicle use24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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-ELBERT-016
6 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-ELBERT-007
18 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Match: 10 prospects, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kyanite. 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
Coneross River MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Norman Sillimanite ProspectKyaniteProspect
Adams MineMicaProspect
Dewey Rose ProspectMicaProspect
Frank Mewburn ProspectMicaProspect
Brown PropertyGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Carrington PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
J. Threlkeld PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
King PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
O. Threlkeld PlacerGoldProspectPlacer

Every working recorded in Elbert County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Match in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindMatch$15,000County comms reported numerous trees blown down across Elbert County. One tree was down on a house on Seymour Rd and the roof was blown off a barn in the northeast part of the county.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMatch-Trees were blown down on Hewell Rd, Deep Creek Rd, and Stinchcomb Rd.

Every storm recorded in Elbert 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
Seymours Store1.4 miles14
Harper3.0 miles14
Nickville3.0 miles14
Hard Cash3.1 miles14
Dewy Rose3.4 miles14
Bowman3.5 miles14
Goss4.9 miles14
Thirteen Forks6.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334665. 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.