BlockRising Fawn, Georgia
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Trenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30738. It stands on Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle. It stands 791 feet above sea level.
On record in Rising Fawn
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- County Road 130 Bridge, Spanning Gulf Creek, Rising Fawnfederal building survey, 5 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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 Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1936 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Trenton quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
297 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Rising Fawn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,368 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 76 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 | 168 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 76 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020DADE005 |
| 7 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-DADE-003 |
| 24 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020DADE006 |
| 17 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-DADE-012 |
| 15 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2016-DADE-004 |
| 14 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-DADE-006 |
| 13 September 2010 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 4.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-DADE-005 |
| 13 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Rising Fawn: 10 past producers, 6 prospects, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, Stone, Dimension, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halloysite Mine | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Southern Iron and Steel Co Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Sulfur-Pyrite | Prospect | ||
| Bibble Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant | |
| Blake's Mine Et Al. | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant | |
| J.C.Mcelroy Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Phoenix Iron & Coal Mines | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant | |
| Unnamed Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Prospect |
Storms near this place
17 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rising Fawn in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Rising Fawn | $1,000,000 | The Dade County Emergency Manager reported a debris flow which blocked Burkhalter Gap Road. A portion of Newsome Gap Road in the same area washed out. |
| February 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Fawn | $75,000 | The Dade County 911 Center reported that a tree was down on a house on Newsome Gap Road, trapping the resident inside. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Rising Fawn | $30,000 | The Dade County emergency manager reported several roads were flooded. Yards of residences were also beginning to flood. The stage height at a USGS stream gage on Lookout Creek near New England reached flood stage of 12 feet. The creek crest at 15.3 feet. Minor flooding occurred with 1 to 3 feet over several roads...such as Sells Lane in Trenton...Mason Road near Rising Fawn and Creek Road near New England. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Fawn | $25,000 | The Dade County Emergency Management Director reported that dozens of trees and power lines were down throughout the county, even outside the EF1 tornado path that tracked from just south-southwest of Trenton to near the Tennessee border near Wildwood. The damage was the result of strong straight line winds of 60 mph or greater. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Fawn | $5,000 | The Dade County 911 center reported a several trees blown down in the Rising Fawn area along Mason Road and around the intersection of Cave Springs Road and Holder Loop Road. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Fawn | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power lines along U.S. Highway 11 in Rising Fawn. Nearly 350 Georgia power customers had lost power for six to eight hours from the downed power lines. |
| January 2012 | Flash Flood | Rising Fawn | $3,000 | The water level at a USGS stream gauge exceeded flood stage of 12 feet on the Lookout Creek at Creek Road. Minor flooding occurred in the woodlands and fields along the creek. The water overflowed portions of Sells Lane in Trenton and Mason Road near Rising Fawn and caused minor flooding. |
| July 2004 | Lightning | Rising Fawn | $1,000 | The Dade County Emergency Management Director reported that four cows were killed when lightning struck a tree near the cows, causing the tree to split and fall on the cows. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Fawn | $1,000 | Dade county 911 reported trees down and power outages. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Rising Fawn | - | Golf ball sized hail reported at mm 4 on I-59 . |
| March 2021 | Flash Flood | Rising Fawn | - | Law enforcement reported a road closed near the intersection of Holder Loop and Cave Spring Road due to flooding. Radar estimates indicate that between 3 and 5 inches of rain occurred over the area, producing the flooding. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Rising Fawn | - | Quarter-sized hail was reported by an attendant at the Pilot Travel Center at exit 4 on I-59 at Deer Head Cove Road in Rising Fawn. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Rising Fawn | - | A trained storm spotter observed quarter-sized hail outside of Trenton. WSR-88D radar data suggests that most of the hail fell across the southern half of the county from near Rising Fawn to Cloudland Canyon State Park. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Rising Fawn | - | The public observed quarter-sized hail just northwest of Rising Fawn. WSR-88D suggests that similar-sized hail to nickel-sized hail likely continued to just east of Rising Fawn. |
| March 2010 | Hail | Rising Fawn | - | Employees at the Rising Fawn Post Office observed nickel to quarter-sized hail for up to 30 minutes. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Rising Fawn | - | The public and the Dade County 911 Center reported penny to nickel-sized hail. |
| November 2001 | Hail | Rising Fawn | - | The public reported nickel size hail. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloverdale | 2.7 miles | 23 | |
| Amos Mill | 3.0 miles | 23 | |
| Plum Nelly | 3.3 miles | 25 | |
| Cedar Hill | 3.7 miles | 23 | |
| Stewart Town | 4.5 miles | 23 | |
| Sulphur Springs Station | 5.0 miles | 23 | |
| Tatum (historical) | 5.4 miles | 23 | |
| Union | 5.9 miles | 23 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Rising Fawn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3709475 | The 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 332861. 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.
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.