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Red Belt, Georgia

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Boynton Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30707. The Survey maps it on the Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle.

Red Belt within Catoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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

279 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Red Belt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 560 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 43 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 burning173
Arson/incendiarism43
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1993Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChickamauga & Chattanooga National Military ParkHAY
24 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-WALKER-011
21 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021CATOOSA001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Belt in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindRed Belt$2,000Two trees down on roadways. One tree near the intersection of farming rock road and lee clarkson road. One tree down along red belt road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindRed Belt$1,000Report of tree down in roadway at Lee Clarkson Rd and Farming Rock Rd.

Every storm recorded in Catoosa 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
Blue Spring1.9 miles28
Burning Bush2.8 miles28
Post Oak3.3 miles28
Beaumount4.5 miles25
Mount Pisgah4.8 miles25
Fairlawn Acres4.8 miles28
Boynton4.8 miles28
Fort Oglethorpe4.9 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 353317. 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.

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.