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Pirkle Woods, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Cumming census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30040. It stands on Sawnee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cumming quadrangle.

Pirkle Woods within Forsyth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

249 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Pirkle Woods between 1992 and 2018, burning about 286 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 46 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 burning116
Arson/incendiarism46
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Smoking18
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony9

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 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-FORSYTH-001
11 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forsyth County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pirkle Woods: 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica. 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
Cumming QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hansard ProspectMicaProspect
Davis MineGoldPast Producer
Lot 70 2nd Dist.GoldPast ProducerVein
LyonsGoldProspectVein
Sawnee Mt.GoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Young Deer CreekGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Zamoda Au ProspectGoldProspectVein

Every working recorded in Forsyth 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
Dunn1.0 miles21
Cumming1.3 miles21
Coal Mountain3.6 miles19
Drew4.9 miles21
The Polo Fields5.2 miles21
Matt5.3 miles22
Mars Hill Crossroads5.8 miles21
Ducktown6.5 miles21

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 Q122550450The 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 332693. 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.