Sarah, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Suches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30572. It stands on Grassy Gap Branch. The Survey maps it on the Suches quadrangle.

Sarah within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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.

1888 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1911 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1935 USGS Suches quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Suches quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Suches quadrangle1:24000, 4 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 Dalton quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Suches quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Sarah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,774 acres in total. None started naturally. 47 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	54
Arson/incendiarism	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-LUMPKIN-006
5 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-LUMPKIN-001
2 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019LUMPKIN001
17 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	not named
20 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Suches	1.6 miles	24
Gaddistown	3.4 miles	24
Quebec (historical)	3.5 miles	24
Baxter	5.3 miles	24
Hood	10.8 miles	22
Otto (historical)	10.9 miles	23
Owltown	11.3 miles	23
Youngcane (historical)	11.6 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332981. 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.