Quebec, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Suches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30572. It lies near Baker Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Neel Gap quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Quebec within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1886 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1896 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1935 USGS Neels Gap quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Neels Gap quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Neels Gap quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Neels Gap quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Quebec (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,138 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 32 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
Arson/incendiarism	32
Debris and open burning	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
22 August 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-LUMPKIN-001
2 August 1993	Natural	2.5 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	not named
29 July 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	WATERFALL
20 July 1998	Natural	9.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	BLOOD
2 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019LUMPKIN001
17 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	not named
4 May 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020UNION013
23 May 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	290 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	CHESTNUT MTN.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Suches	1.9 miles	24
Sarah	3.5 miles	24
Gaddistown	4.3 miles	24
Baxter	4.6 miles	24
Hood	7.6 miles	22
Otto (historical)	7.8 miles	23
Owltown	7.9 miles	23
Choestoe	8.4 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 353174. 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.