Sandtown, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Tignall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30668. The Survey maps it on the Tignall quadrangle.

Sandtown within Wilkes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1906 USGS Crawfordville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Tignall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Sandtown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 423 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 5 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	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Natural	17
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WILKES-001
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Natural	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WILKES-002
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WILKES-011
23 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes 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 Sandtown: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Granite. 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
G.W. Booker Property	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Kendall Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Pink Pearl Quarry	Granite	Producer
Silver Pearl Quarry	Granite	Producer

Every working recorded in Wilkes 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
Sandy Hill	1.9 miles	13
Possie (historical)	2.9 miles	13
Danburg	2.9 miles	13
Floral Hill	3.3 miles	13
Cohentown	3.3 miles	13
Tignall	3.6 miles	13
Armstrong (historical)	4.4 miles	12
Delhi	5.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326503. 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.