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Mount Olivet, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Reed Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30643. The Survey maps it on the Reed Creek quadrangle.

Mount Olivet within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olivet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 455 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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 burning125
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2

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 1997Debris and open burning4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HART001
6 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2001Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-HART-002
19 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HART-002
16 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HART-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Mount Olivet: 9 occurrences, 8 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, 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
Rowland MineFeldspar, MicaPast Producer
Unknown, ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Unknown, ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Banister MineMicaPast Producer
Bobo DepositMicaOccurrence
Cole DepositMicaOccurrence
Garner MineMicaPast Producer
Hartwell Quarry & MillMicaPlant1919
Hubert Creek DepositMicaOccurrence
Isam Sanders DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Hart 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
Maretts1.6 miles14
Cross Roads2.0 miles15
Flat Shoals3.1 miles13
Shoal Creek3.8 miles15
Hartwell4.3 miles13
Reed Creek4.5 miles14
Parkertown Mill4.8 miles15
Parkertown4.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332431. 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.