Rosamond, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the LaGrange census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30240. It stands on Wilson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Abbottsford quadrangle.

Rosamond within Troup County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Abbottsford quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Rosamond between 1992 and 2019, burning about 617 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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	81
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20130909-001
4 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-TROUP-006
4 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TROUP001
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TROUP-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Troup County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rosamond: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Beryllium, Mica. 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
	Davis Prospect	Mica	Occurrence
	Word Prospect	Beryllium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Troup 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
Rivercrest	0.5 miles	14
Heritage Hills	0.9 miles	14
Timber Ridge	1.0 miles	14
River Trace	1.2 miles	14
Colony Heights	1.3 miles	14
Crowder (historical)	1.4 miles	14
Shady Oaks	1.5 miles	14
Heatherbrook	1.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673127. 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.