Mountville, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the LaGrange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30241. The Survey maps it on the Mountville quadrangle.

Mountville within Troup County

On record in Mountville

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 2 records

Nathan Van Boddie Houselisted 1977
Mays-Boddie Houselisted 1982

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Mountville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Mountville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 759 acres in total. 7 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 burning	84
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MERIWETHER-009
20 September 1997	Smoking	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-TROUP-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Troup 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 Mountville: 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Iron, Nickel, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Louise Chromite Deposit	Chromium, Iron, Nickel	Prospect	1870
The Oddessa Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Pothill Mine	Chromium	Past Producer
Turner Mine	Chromium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Troup 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Big Springs	3.3 miles	11
Knott	3.6 miles	10
Louise	4.2 miles	10
Whitfield	4.4 miles	10
Brookstone Estates	6.8 miles	12
Troup Factory (historical)	6.9 miles	11
Greenwich Woods Estates	7.1 miles	12
Hilyer	7.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 319091. 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.