Rousseau Spring, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Thomson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30802. The Survey maps it on the Winfield quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rousseau Spring within McDuffie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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.

1892 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1912 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000
1921 USGS Appling quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Appling quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Winfield quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Winfield quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Rousseau Spring (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 690 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 8 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	94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
8 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020COLUMBIA001
5 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MCDUFFIE-009
20 September 2011	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-COLUMBIA-014
12 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDuffie County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rousseau Spring (historical): 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dill	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Julia Or Phelps Mine	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Paschal	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Ramsey Property	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in McDuffie 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
Cobbham	2.2 miles	20
Raysville	3.2 miles	20
Cobbham Crossroads	3.3 miles	20
Shiloh (historical)	4.0 miles	20
Hamilton Crossroads	4.3 miles	20
Stones Crossroads	5.4 miles	20
Scuffletown	5.6 miles	20
Ansley Mill	5.6 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334200. 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.