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New Switzerland, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cornelia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30563. The Survey maps it on the Ayersville quadrangle.

New Switzerland within Habersham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

259 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 259 fires within 5 miles of New Switzerland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 801 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 45 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 burning117
Arson/incendiarism45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use23
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
8 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Debris and open burning7.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HABERSHAM001
5 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestHIGHWAY 365#1,#2,#3
18 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BANKS-001
1 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HABERSHAM-002
8 August 2008Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Habersham 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 New Switzerland: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
J.P.Fort PropertyManganesePast ProducerResidual
Piedmont College FarmIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Habersham County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Switzerland in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2025HailNew Switzerland-Public reported (via Social Media) dime to quarter size hail.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Switzerland-Public reported multiple trees snapped on North Woods Dr.
December 2013FloodNew Switzerland-Glade Creek Parkway was closed due to flooding from nearby Glade Creek.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Switzerland-Multiple large tree limbs were blown down.
March 2011HailNew Switzerland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Habersham 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
Stottsville1.2 miles18
Mount Airy2.2 miles18
Shorts Mill2.9 miles18
Cornelia3.7 miles18
Dicks Hill3.9 miles18
Demorest4.7 miles18
Baldwin4.9 miles14
Habersham Station (historical)5.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 351425. 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.