Orsman, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Armuchee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30165. The Survey maps it on the Rome North quadrangle.

Orsman within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1886 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000
1899 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Rome North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Rome quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Orsman between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,210 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 47 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	97
Arson/incendiarism	47
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	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
5 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-FLOYD-007
29 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Natural	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-FLOYD-030
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-FLOYD-019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd 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
Central Grove (historical)	2.7 miles	18
Crystal Springs	3.2 miles	16
Armuchee	3.4 miles	16
Fouche	3.9 miles	17
Sand Springs	4.6 miles	18
Berryhill	5.1 miles	17
Green Acre	5.2 miles	18
Glenwood	5.2 miles	18

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.

Wikidata item Q122539591

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 326441. 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.