Orange, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Lathemtown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30115. The Survey maps it on the Ball Ground East quadrangle.

Orange within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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.

1890 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1926 USGS Tate quadrangle1:62500
1928 USGS Tate quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Ball Ground East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Ball Ground East quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Ball Ground East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Orange between 1992 and 2019, burning about 376 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 35 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	105
Arson/incendiarism	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1993	Smoking	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FORSYTH-003
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-CHEROKEE-003
12 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Orange: 13 past producers, 6 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Iron-Pyrite, Iron. 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
Creighton Mine	Gold, Cobalt	Past Producer
Dickens Prospect	Copper, Iron-Pyrite	Past Producer	Massive Sulfide
James M.Quarles Property	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Barium Deposit	Barium-Barite	Occurrence
Smith Prospect	Iron-Pyrite	Occurrence	Vein
Cook Mine	Mica	Past Producer
F M Williams Prospect	Mica	Prospect
J T Haley Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Burty No. 2	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Cox Prospect	Gold	Prospect

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orange in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2004	Tornado (F1)	Orange	4 hurt, $300,000	The Cherokee County Emergency Management Director reported that a brief F1 tornado occurred at the end of a path of extensive damage caused by strong straight-lined winds. The tornado touched down near Georgia Highway 20, also known as Cumming Highway, near the town of White City about 8 miles east of Canton. The tornado continued north to north-northwest, roughly centered along Jack Page Lane, for about 1 mile before lifting. The damage path was determined to be approximately 400 yards wide. Dozens of trees were blown down in this area in a convergent pattern. Four people were injured on Georgia Highway 20 when trees fell on their vehicles during the tornado. North of Georgia Highway 20 and mostly west of Jack Page Lane, six homes suffered extensive damage, mostly from fallen trees.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Orange	$9,000	Multiple reports of trees and power lines blown down from GA Hwy 20 near Union Hill Road, to Little River Farms Trail off of Freehome Hwy.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Orange	$3,000	The Emergency Manager relayed a report of several trees down at Old Orange Mill Road and Jessie Lane.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Orange	$1,000	Em reported tree down at Northwoods Dr and Henry Scott Rd.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Orange	-	Report of a tree down on a vehicle parked in a driveway on the 3500 block of union hill rd.
April 2015	Hail	Orange	-	The public reported penny size hail near Macedonia.

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
Macedonia	1.0 miles	21
Lathemtown	1.9 miles	19
White City	1.9 miles	20
Free Home	3.0 miles	19
Harmony	3.5 miles	20
Carmichael Crossroads	4.2 miles	20
Buffington	4.3 miles	20
Creighton (historical)	4.6 miles	21

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 Orange	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7099468	The 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 332579. 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.