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Sand Hill, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Carrollton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30180. The Survey maps it on the Villa Rica quadrangle.

Sand Hill within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

225 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Sand Hill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 624 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 53 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 burning111
Arson/incendiarism53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking8
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor7

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
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CARROLL-008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sand Hill: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
J.L.Davis PropertyGoldPast ProducerVein
UnnamedIronUnknown
Villa Rica QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sand Hill in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 8 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
March 2008Thunderstorm WindSand Hill$150,000The Carroll Star News of Carrollton reported that a number of trees and power lines were blown down in the Sand Hill area and near the intersection of Georgia Highway 166 and 61 northeast of Carrollton causing damage to four mobile homes. One of the mobile homes, located on Garden Ridge Drive, was destroyed, leaving four adults and two children homeless. The other other three mobile homes were heavily damaged.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindSand Hill$30,000Trees fell on a home and a vehicle in the area near Carrollton Villa Rica Highway and Bankhead Highway.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindSand Hill$1,000Tree down on a house along sandhill shady grove road near shadowwood lane.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSand Hill$1,000Tree down on home along 1700 block of Bankhead Hwy near Carrollton near Old Airport Rd.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSand Hill$1,000Tree down on a house along Laurel Trace .
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSand Hill$1,000Public report of a tree down at the 200 block of Riviera Dr.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSand Hill$1,000Tree reported down near intersection of Carrollton Villa Rica Hwy and Brooks Rd.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindSand Hill$1,000Carroll county 911 reported power lines blown down between Villa Rica and Carrollton.

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Five Points2.2 miles17
Curtis2.6 miles16
Shady Grove2.8 miles15
Ithaca3.1 miles17
Lang (historical)3.1 miles16
Hodge (historical)3.4 miles16
Hickory Heights3.8 miles16
Castlegate East3.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332967. 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.