Rutherford, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Elder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30605. It lies near Coon Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Barnett Shoals quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rutherford within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Barnett Shoals quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Rutherford (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 228 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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	49
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-OGLETHORPE-009
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-OCONEE-002
26 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2003	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-OCONEE-003
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee 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
Belmont	1.1 miles	11
Pioneer Woods	1.4 miles	11
Old Mill Chase	1.5 miles	11
Oak Point	1.5 miles	11
River Farms	1.9 miles	11
Pine Hills	2.2 miles	11
Victoria Station	4.3 miles	12
Sherwood Forest	4.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326140. 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.