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Miller Academy, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mount Zion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30117. The Survey maps it on the Temple quadrangle.

Miller Academy within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

307 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Miller Academy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 749 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 95 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 burning129
Arson/incendiarism95
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony16
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
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 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CARROLL-007
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-HARALSON-003
30 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll 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 Miller Academy: 6 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Manganese, Iron, 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
Reeds MountainGold, Nickel, CobaltPast ProducerSulfide Segregations
Reeds Mountain MineSulfur, IronPast Producer
Reeds Mountain ProspectCobalt, NickelOccurrence
Reeds Mt. MineIron-PyritePast ProducerVein
W.M. Raburn PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919
Westbrook PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919
Ada Mrs W M Raburn ProspectSulfurOccurrence
J Humphrey ProspectSulfurOccurrence
W M Raburn ProspectSulfurOccurrence

Every working recorded in Carroll 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
Mandeville1.5 miles15
Bowdon Junction1.6 miles15
Abilene4.0 miles15
Buck Creek (historical)4.1 miles16
Mount Zion4.4 miles15
Pine Ridge Estates4.6 miles16
Holly Heights4.7 miles16
Greene Valley Estates4.8 miles16

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 Q122545658The 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 349641. 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.