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Salacoa, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waleska census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30183. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ludville quadrangle.

Salacoa within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Salacoa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,583 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 118 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
Arson/incendiarism118
Debris and open burning99
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BARTOW-024
29 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Salacoa: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Flagstone, Stone, 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
H & M QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Upshire QuarryStonePast Producer
Jerusalem QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Pine Log QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Unnamed Manganese DepositManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed Manganese DepositManganeseOccurrence
UpshawManganeseUnknown1954
Vaughan PropertyManganeseUnknown1917

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Greely1.8 miles19
Beasley Gap3.0 miles20
Waleska6.0 miles20
Sharp Top7.1 miles22
Burris Crossroads7.8 miles22
Worley Crossroads7.9 miles21
Sutallee11.6 miles22
Keithsburg11.7 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q122592744The 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 332959. 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.