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Mount Vernon, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Good Hope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30655. It lies near Jacks Creek Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle.

Mount Vernon within Walton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Mount Vernon between 1992 and 2018, burning about 374 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 9 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 burning74
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural10
Smoking10
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony3

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
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-WALTON-003
19 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Smoking4.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WALTON-001
30 August 1998Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mount Vernon: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, 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
H B Marble ProspectManganeseProspect
Unnamed ProspectMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Walton County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Vernon in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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
June 1995HailMount Vernon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walton 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
Bradley2.9 miles17
Gratis3.4 miles17
Good Hope4.0 miles16
Caruthers Mill4.1 miles18
Snows Mill4.6 miles16
Monroe4.6 miles17
Campton4.7 miles17
Walker Park4.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332436. 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.