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Mount Pisgah, Georgia

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Ringgold census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30736. It lies near Beaumont Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Nickajack Gap quadrangle.

Mount Pisgah within Catoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

468 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 468 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pisgah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,713 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 69 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 burning288
Arson/incendiarism69
Equipment and vehicle use43
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking13
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural7

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 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CATOOSA002
9 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CATOOSA001
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1993Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Pisgah in 2 storm reports in 2025: 2 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 2025Thunderstorm WindMount Pisgah$1,000Emergency Manager relayed a report of a tree down in the road at W Nickajack Road. The location was estimated based on radar velocity.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMount Pisgah$1,000Emergency manager reported a tree down in the road across Kenny Ln.

Every storm recorded in Catoosa 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
Beaumount0.9 miles25
Blue Spring3.2 miles28
Pleasant Grove3.3 miles28
Post Oak3.6 miles28
Burning Bush4.1 miles28
Poplar Springs4.6 miles28
Red Belt4.8 miles28
Love Hill5.3 miles28

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 Mount PisgahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987225The 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 353292. 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.

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.