Salem, Georgia

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 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Douglas County Courthouselisted 2002 · 0.2 miles away
• Douglasville Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1989 · 0.2 miles away
• Col. William T. Roberts Houselisted 1989 · 0.3 miles away

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.

• 1891 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
• 1901 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Campbellton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
• 1999 USGS Campbellton quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Salem between 1992 and 2019, burning about 333 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 49 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Alta Vista
• Dorris
• Anneewakee Heights
• Connally
• Douglasville
• Lincoln Heights

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Salem: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Douglas County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1686524. 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.