Salem, Georgia

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Catoosa Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30736. It lies near Sand Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Ringgold quadrangle.

Salem within Catoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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.

1886 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Catoosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1892 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1935 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

319 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 319 fires within 5 miles of Salem between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,088 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 39 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	210
Arson/incendiarism	39
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Smoking	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Natural	4

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
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CATOOSA-008
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	GREAT WALL OF CHINA
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CATOOSA-004
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WHITFIELD002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa 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 Salem: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Unnamed	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Clark Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Fry Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hales Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Catoosa 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
Mount Vernon	2.5 miles	27
Keith	2.7 miles	27
Catoosa Springs	3.0 miles	27
Shookville	3.9 miles	27
Stone Church	4.0 miles	27
Ringgold	4.5 miles	27
Greenwood	4.7 miles	27
Sugartown	5.1 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332960. 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.