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Quill, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rich Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30536. It lies near George Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Tickanetley quadrangle.

Quill within Gilmer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Quill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 545 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 21 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 burning46
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
23 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-MURRAY-001
15 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GILMER-003
2 June 2007Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 May 2007Arson/incendiarism5.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 May 2007Smoking2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 1999Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 April 2007Debris and open burning7.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilmer County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Quill: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Cartecay Mine (Lucky Eight)GoldPast ProducerStream Placer
UnknownGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Gilmer County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quill in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Thunderstorm WindQuill$2,000The Gilmer County Emergency Manager reported a few trees blown down along Roy Road.

Every storm recorded in Gilmer 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
Tickanetley0.8 miles22
Marion2.2 miles22
Diamond2.5 miles22
Roy2.9 miles22
Rolston3.2 miles22
Licklog (historical)3.5 miles17
Cartecay4.6 miles17
Pike (historical)4.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332775. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.