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Rover, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Rover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30292. The Survey maps it on the Griffin South quadrangle.

Rover within Spalding County

On record in Rover

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.

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.

Fires near this place

321 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 321 fires within 5 miles of Rover between 1992 and 2019, burning about 676 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 44 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 burning197
Arson/incendiarism44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020PIKE002
7 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PIKE-003
4 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SPALDING003
3 September 2011Debris and open burning3.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-SPALDING-007
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spalding 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 Rover: 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Manganese, Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Beryl DepositGemstoneOccurrence
Walker PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect
Griffin Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Griffin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Spalding County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rover in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2019Thunderstorm WindRover$20,000The public reported shingles blown off the roofs of a few houses around Quarry Circle and Stonebriar Road.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindRover$10,000Em reports numerous trees down on the southwest side of griffin between williamson rd and sr41 to around moreland rd powerlines also involved.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRover$1,000Powerlines reported down at the 300 block of Moreland Rd.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindRover$1,000The Spalding County 911 Center reported that three to four trees were down from the Pike and Lamar county lines northward to the Griffin area. A tree was down on Audubon Circle, Barnesville Road, and Ninth Street.
August 2020Flash FloodRover-The Emergency Manager reported Bethany Road was closed due to water over the roadway near West Williamson Road. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 4 inches of rain fell quickly over the area, overwhelming small creeks and drainage systems.
May 2002HailRover-Amateur radio operators relayed two reports of dime size hail in Rover and another report of dime size hail was reported by the public in Griffin.

Every storm recorded in Spalding 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Zetella3.5 miles9
Esmond4.1 miles9
Griffin4.7 miles9
Experiment4.9 miles9
Blantons Mill5.4 miles9
Valdo (historical)5.5 miles9
Highland Mills5.6 miles9
Rio5.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 321969. 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.