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Mill Creek Station, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Paulding census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30157. The Survey maps it on the Dallas quadrangle.

Mill Creek Station within Paulding County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

274 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Mill Creek Station between 1992 and 2019, burning about 439 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 96 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 burning122
Arson/incendiarism96
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Smoking2

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 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-PAULDING-014
30 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism16 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PAULDING-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Paulding County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Mill Creek Station: 4 prospects, 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur, Mica, Feldspar. 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
Coggins and Smith ProspectIron-Pyrite, Sulfur, ZincOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
D. Ragsdale ProspectIron-PyriteOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Turner ProspectMica, FeldsparProspect
Don Watson ProspectSulfurProspect
Mrs Sunie Clay ProspectSulfurProspect
J. B. Kemp ProspectGoldPast Producer
J.B.Kemp's Property (Hathaway Property)GoldPast ProducerVein
Mason MineGoldPast ProducerVein
W. H. Hadaway ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Paulding County

Storms near this place

6 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mill Creek Station in 6 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 6 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMill Creek Station$8,000The Paulding County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down around the intersection of Dallas Acworth Highway and Homestead Drive.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindMill Creek Station$3,000Emergency manager reports several trees and powerlines down around the Brookstone Country Club.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindMill Creek Station$1,000Emergency Manager reported a tree down across the roadway at intersection of Due West Rd and Ivey Ln.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindMill Creek Station$1,000Trees and power lines in intersection of Due West Rd and Hwy 92.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMill Creek Station$1,000The Paulding County 911 center reported a tree blown down along Due West Road near County Line Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMill Creek Station$1,000The Paulding County 911 center reported a tree blown down in the vicinity of Due West Road and Roswell Road.

Every storm recorded in Paulding 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 Haven0.3 miles17
Hampton Estates0.4 miles17
Roxana0.5 miles17
Park Place0.9 miles17
Oak Hill1.0 miles18
Cross Roads1.3 miles18
Etta (historical)1.4 miles17
Hasford Estates1.4 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122553095The 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 349882. 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.