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Padena, Georgia

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Morganton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30560. It stands on Star Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wilscot quadrangle.

Padena within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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

316 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of Padena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 703 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 82 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 burning176
Arson/incendiarism82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

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
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestSKEENAH GAP
14 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestSANDY BOTTOM FIRE
23 August 2007Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-FANNIN-001
1 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-FANNIN-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Padena: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Samples Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
The Park PropertyMarble, DimensionPast Producer
The W.M.Dallas MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fannin 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
Hurst1.8 miles25
Morganton2.5 miles23
Forge Mill3.2 miles23
Hemp3.3 miles23
Lakewood3.4 miles23
Craytonia3.4 miles25
Bryan Mill4.0 miles23
Wright Mill4.2 miles23

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 Q122549920The 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 332592. 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.