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Reeseburg, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rome census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30173. It lies near Hickory Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Rome South quadrangle.

Reeseburg within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

608 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 608 fires within 5 miles of Reeseburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,712 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 273 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
Arson/incendiarism273
Debris and open burning225
Equipment and vehicle use33
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Recreation and ceremony16
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Smoking7

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 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-POLK-003
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-POLK-002
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-POLK-007
5 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-FLOYD-018
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 68 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of Reeseburg: 33 prospects, 31 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Cobalt, 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
Berkstresser, H.L. ProspectCobalt, NickelProducerReplacement
Floyd County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Harper TractIron, ManganesePast Producer1895
Berkstresser Prop Cave SpringCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Gibson MineCobalt, ManganesePast Producer
Couper PropertyManganesePast ProducerResidual
Hillyer PropertyManganeseProspect1919
Lot 44ManganesePast Producer1901
Wood and Reynolds PropertyManganeseProspect1902
Bobo BankIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Floyd 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
Brice2.0 miles19
Relay2.4 miles19
Ridgedale2.4 miles18
Boozeville2.8 miles18
Silvermont2.8 miles18
Ridgewood Estates2.9 miles18
Silver Creek3.2 miles18
Green3.4 miles19

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 Q122566885The 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 326487. 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.