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Plantation Manor, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the LaGrange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30240. It lies near Hogg Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Cannonville quadrangle.

Plantation Manor within Troup County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Plantation Manor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 778 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 12 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 burning93
Smoking15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony5

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 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TROUP-006
30 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning5.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1993Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Troup County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Plantation Manor: 3 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Barium-Barite, Gold, Beryllium. 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
Hogg MineMica, BerylliumPast Producer
Rockford PlacerGoldPast Producer
Hart ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
Mat Teague ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
Smith's Store ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Troup 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
Old Chimney1.5 miles15
Smiths Crossroad1.8 miles15
Hogg Mountain2.0 miles15
Gray Hill2.1 miles15
Parkway Estates2.3 miles15
Baughs Crossroads2.4 miles15
Wood Valley2.4 miles15
Smoke Rise2.4 miles15

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 Q122565526The 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 1673266. 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.