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Red Banks, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Young Harris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30582. It stands on Bare Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hiawassee quadrangle. It stands 1,991 feet above sea level.

Red Banks within Towns County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Red Banks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,328 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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 burning192
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Arson/incendiarism23
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Fireworks1
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
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceOUT OF COUNTRY FIRE
20 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceHICHORY RIDGE
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceSNEAKING CREEK
12 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TOWNS-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Towns County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Red Banks: 6 prospects, 5 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Iron-Pyrite, Corundum, Manganese. 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
Bell Mtn Silica MineSilicaPast Producer
Berrong Prospect (Johnson Copper Prospect)Copper, Iron-PyriteOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Bumgarner ProspectClayProspect
Hog Creek Corundum MineCorundumPast Producer
Matherson PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mcconell EstateManganesePast Producer1919
E.R. Brown MineGoldProspectVein
Kerby ProspectGoldProspectVein
Malden ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Murdock Vein MineGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Towns 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
Campagne (historical)0.4 miles24
Cedar Cliff1.0 miles24
Friendship1.8 miles24
Hunt (historical)3.3 miles24
Welch3.7 miles23
Alexanders Mill3.7 miles23
Hiawassee3.7 miles24
Young Harris3.8 miles24

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 Q31422275The 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 329378. 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.