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Rydal, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the White-Pine Log census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30171. The Survey maps it on the White East quadrangle.

Rydal within Bartow County

On record in Rydal

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 2 records

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.

Fires near this place

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Rydal between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,554 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 71 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 burning88
Arson/incendiarism71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2

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
7 September 2002Natural8.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-BARTOW-020
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BARTOW-011
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BARTOW-024
24 September 2010Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BARTOW-019
23 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BARTOW-006
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 79 workings within 5 miles of Rydal: 42 occurrences, 25 past producers, 10 unknowns, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Iron, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bluff MineIron, SulfurPast Producer
Funkhouser Co QuarryClayPast Producer
Upshire QuarryStonePast Producer
Conasauga No. 1 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rob Shinall QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
AlexanderIron, ManganeseUnknown1954
AllisonIron, ManganesePast Producer1919
AubreyIron, ManganesePast Producer1918
BoneyardIron, ManganesePast Producer1900
Chumley Hill-Reo Mountain MinesIron, ManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Bartow County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rydal in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2007HailRydal$200,000A storm spotter reported golf ball-sized hail in the Rydal area while the public reported nickel-sized hail just southeast of Rydal.
February 2022Thunderstorm WindRydal$1,000Tree and powerlines down at intersection of East Valley Road and Mahan road.
February 2020Flash FloodRydal-The Emergency Manager reported flooding along East Valley Road due to high flow through Sugar Hill Creek. Radar estimates indicate that 2.5 to 4 inches of rain have occurred, falling on already wet soils, resulting in flash flooding.
May 2002HailRydal-The public reported dime size hail in Rydal.

Every storm recorded in Bartow 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
Pine Log1.0 miles20
Sugar Hill (historical)2.3 miles20
Bolivar2.4 miles20
Funkhouser3.6 miles19
White4.0 miles20
Dewey Crossroads4.1 miles19
Gum Springs4.1 miles19
Sophia (historical)4.6 miles19

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 RydalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7384858The 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 332948. 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.