Ratcliff, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Gilmer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30540. It stands on Demps Creek. The Survey maps it on the Webb quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ratcliff within Gilmer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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 Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Talking Rock quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1916 USGS Talking Rock quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Webb quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Ratcliff (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,450 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 24 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 burning	104
Arson/incendiarism	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	8
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
24 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GILMER-001
17 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	WOLFPEN
17 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-GILMER-001
16 August 2007	Debris and open burning	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-GILMER-001
12 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GILMER-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mountaintown	1.1 miles	23
Ollie	2.1 miles	19
Pleasant Hill	2.3 miles	23
Roosevelt	2.6 miles	19
New Hope	3.0 miles	19
Elders	3.0 miles	19
Conasauga (historical)	3.3 miles	23
Flat Branch	4.3 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1704603. 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.