North Cohutta, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Crandall-Eton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30711. It stands on Muddy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tennga quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

North Cohutta within Murray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 22 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.

1886 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1911 USGS Cohutta Mountain quadrangle1:62500
1911 USGS Cohutta Mtn quadrangle1:62500
1913 USGS Cohutta quadrangle1:62500
1913 USGS Cohutta Mtn. quadrangle1:62500
1913 USGS Cuhutta quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Tennga quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Tennga quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of North Cohutta (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,319 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 40 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	99
Arson/incendiarism	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	1

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	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	HICKORY RIDGE
8 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	TURTLE
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	OVERLOOK FIRE
4 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-MURRAY-004
23 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	MILL CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of North Cohutta (historical): 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Copper. 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
Mill Creek Copper Prospect	Copper	Occurrence
Silver Property	Manganese	Occurrence	1919
White Property	Manganese	Occurrence	1919
C.C. and J.H. Keith Property	Iron	Past Producer
Hickey Property Mine-A?	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
J.K. Keith Property	Iron	Past Producer
John Johnson Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Keith Property	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Lafollette Coal and Iron Co Prosp	Iron	Prospect
Poteet Property	Iron	Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Murray 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
Cohutta Springs	1.0 miles	22
Crandall	2.7 miles	21
Temple Grove	3.9 miles	19
Cisco	4.1 miles	22
Sumac	4.7 miles	19
Gregory	5.5 miles	19
Eton	5.6 miles	21
Doogan	5.8 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334558. 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.