Rock Spring, Georgia
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Rock Spring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30739. It lies near Long Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Nickajack Gap quadrangle. 891 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.
On record in Rock Spring
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
- Carter's Quarters, Old Federal Road, Rock Springfederal building survey, 6 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 25 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 Ringgold quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Catoosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1892 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1935 USGS Nickajack Gap quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Nickajack Gap 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
- 1983 USGS Nickajack Gap 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
356 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 356 fires within 5 miles of Rock Spring between 1992 and 2020, burning about 927 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 49 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 | 246 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 49 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020CATOOSA002 |
| 9 September 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-WALKER-009 |
| 8 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020CATOOSA001 |
| 7 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rock Spring: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warrenfel's Mine | Iron | Past Producer | Strataform, Concordant | |
| Warthen Prospect | Iron | Prospect |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freetown (historical) | 0.7 miles | 25 | |
| Center Grove | 2.7 miles | 25 | |
| Noble | 3.1 miles | 26 | |
| Chickamauga | 4.1 miles | 26 | |
| Salem (historical) | 4.1 miles | 26 | |
| Pond Spring | 4.4 miles | 26 | |
| Robertsville | 4.9 miles | 28 | |
| Warrens (historical) | 5.2 miles | 26 |
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 Rock Spring | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3710657 | 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 329472. 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.










