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Palmetto, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vesta-Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30627. It stands on Little Macks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vesta quadrangle.

Palmetto within Oglethorpe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Palmetto between 1992 and 2020, burning about 635 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 18 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 burning58
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-OGLETHORPE-008
21 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-OGLETHORPE-007
18 September 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-OGLETHORPE-011
12 September 2001Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-OGLETHORPE-003
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oglethorpe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Palmetto: 9 producers, 6 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Gold, Stone, 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
Galaxy Satin Blue QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Latimer Mine (Fairy Ridge)GoldPast ProducerVein
Paulding County MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bennie and Harvey QuarryGraniteProducer
Briarpatch QuarryGranitePast Producer
Harmony Blue MillGraniteProducer
Harpers QuarryGraniteProducer
Heritage QuarryGranitePast Producer
Locke QuarryGraniteProducer
Oglethorpe QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Oglethorpe 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
Anon (historical)2.6 miles12
Enterprise2.9 miles13
Fairview2.9 miles13
Vesta3.6 miles13
Wise (historical)4.1 miles12
Veribest4.7 miles13
Saxon5.8 miles13
Sycorax (historical)5.9 miles13

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 PalmettoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65062913The 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 332595. 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.