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Red Rock Hills, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Acworth-Kennesaw census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30152. The Survey maps it on the Lost Mountain quadrangle.

Red Rock Hills within Cobb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

244 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Red Rock Hills between 1992 and 2019, burning about 297 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 77 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 burning120
Arson/incendiarism77
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

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 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-PAULDING-014
30 September 1993Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PAULDING-012
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Red Rock Hills: 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur, Iron-Pyrite, Sulfur, Zinc. 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
Coggins and Smith ProspectIron-Pyrite, Sulfur, ZincOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
D. Ragsdale ProspectIron-PyriteOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Don Watson ProspectSulfurProspect
Mrs Sunie Clay ProspectSulfurProspect
J. B. Kemp ProspectGoldPast Producer
J.B.Kemp's Property (Hathaway Property)GoldPast ProducerVein
Mason MineGoldPast ProducerVein
W. H. Hadaway ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Cobb 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
Red Rock0.9 miles17
Story (historical)1.6 miles17
Davis Crossroads1.7 miles17
Lost Mountain2.0 miles17
Calumet West2.4 miles17
West Hampton3.5 miles17
Stilesboro Hills3.7 miles24
Etheridge Glen3.9 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 Q122539486The 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 1686041. 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.