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Santaluca, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the North Gilmer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30540. It stands on Bryant Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cashes Valley quadrangle.

Santaluca within Gilmer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Santaluca between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,103 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 23 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 burning68
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestWOLFPEN
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-GILMER-002
21 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GILMER-006
12 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-GILMER-004
26 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2016Natural9.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestGIBSON CREEK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilmer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Santaluca: 7 past producers, 7 prospects, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Manganese, Marble, Dimension. 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
Searcy PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1919
A.J.Pinson PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence
Davis ProspectsManganesePast Producer1919
Holt PropertyMarble, DimensionOccurrence
Lacey PropertyMarble, DimensionProspect
Searcy PropertyIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Whitaker PropertyMarble, DimensionProspect
HoltGoldProspectPlacer
Turkey PenGoldProspectPlacer
WhitakerGoldProspectPlacer

Every working recorded in Gilmer County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santaluca in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 4 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSantaluca$2,000Trees down along Boardtown Road .
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSantaluca$2,000The Gilmer County 911 center reported a tree blown down onto power lines along Boardtown Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSantaluca$1,000Wires down near the intersection of big ben road and boardtown road.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindSantaluca$1,000Gilmer county EM reported trees down on Boardtown Road. Size and number of trees down is unknown.

Every storm recorded in Gilmer 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
Jones Mill (historical)1.2 miles23
Chopped Oak1.4 miles23
Goose Island1.7 miles23
Cherry Log2.4 miles23
White Path2.8 miles23
Higdon Mill (historical)2.8 miles23
Burnett2.9 miles23
Lucius3.1 miles23

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 Q122589041The 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 332978. 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.