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Mineral Bluff, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Mineral Bluff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30559. It stands on Cutcane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mineral Bluff quadrangle. 223 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,572 feet above sea level.

Mineral Bluff within Fannin County

On record in Mineral Bluff

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Mineral Bluff grew from 150 to 223 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010150
2020223+73 (+49%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 23 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Georgia DOT Bridge No. 111-00060P-00020N, Georgia State Route 60 spur spanning Hempton Creek, Mineral Bluff, Fannin County, GA
Georgia DOT Bridge No. 111-00060P-00020N, Georgia State Route 60 spur spanning Hempton Creek, Mineral Bluff, Fannin County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

441 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 441 fires within 5 miles of Mineral Bluff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 635 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 79 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 burning272
Arson/incendiarism79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Mineral Bluff: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Marble, Dimension, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Manganese. 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
J.Y.Allen PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect
McKinney MineIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
McKinney Mine.Manganese, IronPast Producer1812
Mineral Bluff QuarryFlagstoneProducer
The W.M.Dallas MineMicaPast Producer
Dillard & Prince MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mineral Bluff AreaIronPast ProducerStratabound Concordant
Samples Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
The Dickey PropertyMarble, DimensionOccurrence
The Park PropertyMarble, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mineral Bluff in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2006: 5 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 2003Thunderstorm WindMineral Bluff$10,000The Fannin county 911 center reported that around five dozen trees were blown down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMineral Bluff$1,000Fannin county 911 reported trees down on power lines.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindMineral Bluff$500The Fannin county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMineral Bluff$500Fannin county 911 reported trees down.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMineral Bluff$250The public reported that one tree was blown down near the intersection of Georgia Highway 60 and Curtis Switch Road.

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Windy Ridge1.1 miles23
Brown Mill1.7 miles23
Lakewood1.9 miles23
Hothouse2.0 miles23
Pleasant Hill2.1 miles23
Forge Mill2.2 miles23
Coles Crossing2.6 miles23
Cutcane2.6 miles23

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.

Wikipedia article on Mineral BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6016949The 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 332400. 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.