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Pennville, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Summerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30747. The Survey maps it on the Trion quadrangle.

Pennville within Chattooga County

On record in Pennville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

584 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 584 fires within 5 miles of Pennville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,106 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 224 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 burning280
Arson/incendiarism224
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural6
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CHATTOOGA006
9 September 2015Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-CHATTOOGA-009
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattooga County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pennville: 6 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, 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
Aggregate QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Justice DepositAluminum, IronProspect
Summerville BauxiteAluminumPast ProducerWeathering Residual
Taylor MineAluminumPast Producer
Maddox's Mine AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Maddox's Mine Area-BIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Menlo AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant

Every working recorded in Chattooga 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
Trion2.3 miles19
Summerville2.6 miles16
East Trion2.8 miles19
West Summerville3.7 miles16
Gore4.2 miles16
Welcome Hill4.3 miles19
Farmersville5.1 miles16
Broomtown (historical)5.1 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332638. 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.