Roanoke, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lumpkin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31821. The Survey maps it on the Twin Springs quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Roanoke within Stewart County

On record in Roanoke

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Roods Landing Sitelisted 1975 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Twin Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Roanoke (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 583 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-STEWART-005
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	6.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1999	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2011	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	39 HWY 165, AL
20 July 2000	Natural	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-QUITMAN-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stewart County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Roanoke (historical): 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Zirconium. 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
	Chattahoochee River Prospect	Titanium, Zirconium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Stewart 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Coffinton	2.2 miles	9
Florence	4.2 miles	9
Sanford	6.8 miles	7
Childs Place	7.6 miles	12
Power Place	7.8 miles	12
Perkins Place	7.9 miles	12
Beatrice	8.0 miles	13
Sunlight (historical)	8.1 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347345. 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.