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Metasville, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Washington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30673. The Survey maps it on the Metasville quadrangle.

Metasville within Wilkes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Metasville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 388 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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 burning60
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WILKES-011
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-LINCOLN-003
29 September 1994Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-LINCOLN-005
16 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-WILKES-001
9 August 2006Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes 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 Metasville: 9 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Gold, Kyanite, Copper, Gold. 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
Chambers MineSilver, Copper, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer1892, 1895
Graves Mountain Kyanite OccurrenceKyanite, Iron-PyritePast ProducerRutile, Lazulite, Pyrophyllite, Kyanite
Magruder MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Seminole/Magruder/Wardlaw/Jackson VeinsCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Iron-Pyrite, ZincPast ProducerSilver, Gold, Copper, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Galena, Chalcopyrite
Ce Minerals, Al SilicatesKyaniteProducer
Chamber MineGoldPast Producer
G.W. Booker PropertyGoldPast ProducerVein
Kendall MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Colley MineManganesePast Producer1943
Morgan FarmManganeseProspect1945

Every working recorded in Wilkes County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Metasville in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMetasville$50,000Newspaper accounts stated that a barn was destroyed and windows blown out of the house on a farmin Metasville. A funnel cloud was reported, but there was no confirmation of a tornado at the farm.

Every storm recorded in Wilkes 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
Oak Grove3.3 miles13
Possie (historical)3.8 miles13
Floral Hill4.7 miles13
Adasburg5.1 miles13
Anne Heights6.3 miles13
Cohentown6.5 miles13
Aonia6.5 miles13
Sandtown6.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326396. 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.