Mill Creek, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Gainesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30506. It stands on Wahoo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gainesville quadrangle.

Mill Creek within Hall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 15 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.

1891 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Mill Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 294 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 32 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 burning	103
Arson/incendiarism	32
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Smoking	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HALL-006
12 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HALL-004
21 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-HALL-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hall County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Mill Creek: 14 prospects, 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Merck Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Merk	Gold, Mica	Prospect	Vein
Brenau College	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Cool Spring Church	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Currahee Mine	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Dean	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Elrod/Stephens/Keath/Newton/Ivy Mt./Prater Mines	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Ivy Mtn.	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Johnson Property	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Jones	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Hall 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fox Hollow	0.3 miles	15
Chattahoochee Place	0.4 miles	15
Thompson Mill	0.4 miles	15
Sundown on Lanier	0.5 miles	15
Greystone	0.7 miles	15
Happy Valley	0.7 miles	15
Le Dan	0.8 miles	15
Country Club Gardens	0.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1687002. 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.