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Parrett Crossing, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the North Whitfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30710. It lies near Signal Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cohutta quadrangle.

Parrett Crossing within Whitfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Parrett Crossing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 646 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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 burning121
Arson/incendiarism21
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Debris and open burning2.5 acresTennessee Division of ForestryGREAT WALL OF CHINA
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning4.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WHITFIELD002
23 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WHITFIELD001
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Parrett Crossing: 6 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Lanski Property--Talc Indus IncStone, Crushed/Broken, ManganeseProducer1918
Lord MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Bare PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence1919
Cohutta No 2, Varnell-Cohutta Distr.Iron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Cohutta Number TwoIron, ManganesePast Producer1918
Lanski Property-Varnell-Cohutta DistrictIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
D.A.M. MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
D.A.M. MineManganesePast Producer1918
Hannah ProspectManganeseProspect
Sloan ProspectManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Whitfield County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parrett Crossing in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018Thunderstorm WindParrett Crossing$10,000The Whitfield County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down across the norther part of the county, around the Cohutta area.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindParrett Crossing$9,000The Whitfield County Emergency Manager and the 911 center reported several trees and power lines blown down across the county from Apison Road and Birdie Lane, south to Dalton along South Dixie Highway.
January 2009FloodParrett Crossing$5,000The Daily Citizen of Dalton reported that heavy rain caused flooding on many roads throughout the county. Some specific roads impacted by high water included Cohutta-Varnell Road, Old Mill Road, Old Cleveland Highway, along with several others. Damage was confined to debris removal.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindParrett Crossing$1,000Tree down at Apison road and Parrott Road .
March 2025Thunderstorm WindParrett Crossing-Strong wind gust at the cohutta raws station.

Every storm recorded in Whitfield 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
Red Clay0.9 miles24
Cohutta1.2 miles24
Edgar (historical)4.0 miles24
Mills (historical)4.2 miles24
Varnell5.2 miles24
Prater Mill5.9 miles24
Plainview6.8 miles24
Beaverdale7.2 miles19

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 Q122560360The 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 332615. 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.