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Minneta, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Monticello census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31064. The Survey maps it on the Monticello quadrangle.

Minneta within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Minneta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 535 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking8
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony6

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 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JASPER003
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-JASPER-010
26 September 1993Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2001Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-JASPER-003
14 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Minneta: 3 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Vermiculite. 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
C H Greer MineVermiculitePast Producer
Feldspar Corp Jasper Quarry CFeldsparPast Producer
Feldspar Corp. Jasper Quarry BFeldsparPast Producer
Feldspar Corp/ Ga Mine & PlantFeldsparPlant

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minneta in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
November 2014Thunderstorm WindMinneta$2,000The jasper County 911 Center reported trees down on State Highway 83 south of Monticello.

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Benton Crossing (historical)1.3 miles11
Monticello2.0 miles11
McElheneys Crossroads3.9 miles14
Bethel4.7 miles12
Adgateville4.8 miles12
Goolsby5.8 miles12
Blackwell5.8 miles11
Piedmont (historical)6.1 miles11

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 Q122540032The 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 328820. 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.