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Prater Mill, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Dalton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30721. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cohutta quadrangle.

Prater Mill within Whitfield County

On record in Prater Mill

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

282 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Prater Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 645 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 44 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 burning177
Arson/incendiarism44
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural6
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2002Debris and open burning5.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WALKER-018
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning5.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-WHITFIELD-001
3 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Naturalunder 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 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Prater Mill: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, Iron, Manganese, 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
Hammontree ProspectIronOccurrence
W R Rymer PropertyIronProspect
Bare PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence1919
Cooper PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Eslinger PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence1919
George Cline PropertyBarium-BaritePast Producer
Lanski Property-Varnell-Cohutta DistrictIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Sam & Jw Cline PropertyBarium-BariteProspect

Every working 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
Plainview1.8 miles24
Toonnerville2.5 miles21
Cedar Valley2.9 miles21
Varnell2.9 miles24
Ruralvale3.1 miles19
Edgar (historical)3.6 miles24
Beaverdale4.5 miles19
Norton4.6 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 Q122563495The 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 332754. 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.