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Osborn, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hiawassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30546. It lies near Ab Cove. The Survey maps it on the Macedonia quadrangle.

Osborn within Towns County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

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 Osborn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 815 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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 burning130
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism22
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestIVY RIDGE
19 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-TOWNS-002
18 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TOWNS-001
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 1999Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-TOWNS-022

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Towns County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Osborn: 4 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Iron-Pyrite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Bell Mtn Silica MineSilicaPast Producer
Berrong Prospect (Johnson Copper Prospect)Copper, Iron-PyriteOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Cynth Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chastain (Branch) MineGoldProspectPlacer
Eller MineGoldProspectPlacer
Hooper & Berong ProspectGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Newton MineGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Skeet HooperGoldProspectPlacer
Smith MineGoldProspectPlacer
Wills Creek MineGoldPast ProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in Towns 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
Macedonia1.4 miles22
Presley1.6 miles22
Visage (historical)1.8 miles22
Beech Cove Vista2.5 miles22
Hiawassee3.6 miles24
Titus4.0 miles22
Sunnyside4.2 miles24
Hunt (historical)4.2 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 330577. 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.