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Satolah, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Clayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30525. It stands on Millstone Branch. The Survey maps it on the Satolah quadrangle.

Satolah within Rabun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Satolah between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,680 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 36 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
Arson/incendiarism36
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural5
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresNational Forests in North CarolinaWALKING STICK
12 September 2002Debris and open burning2.4 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestCLIFF
10 September 2002Debris and open burning60 acresNational Forests in North CarolinaROCK HOUSE
6 August 2008Natural7.0 acresNational Forests in North CarolinaWILSON GAP
23 August 1999Naturalunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceCHASTAIN VALLEY
8 July 1993Natural1,050 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestBIG MOUNTAIN
20 July 2000Smokingunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestWEST FORK
17 July 2009Natural7.3 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestREED CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rabun 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 Satolah: 12 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Asbestos, Olivine, Vermiculite, Asbestos, Magnesite. 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
Laurel Creek Olivine DepositOlivine, Vermiculite, AsbestosProducerMafic Intrusive
Laurel Creek Olivine DepositMagnesite, Asbestos, VermiculiteOccurrence
Hicks Asbestos MineAsbestosPast Producer
Nicholson MineAsbestosPast Producer
Reid MineAsbestosPast Producer
Ammons Branch MineGoldPast Producer
Ammons Branch MineGoldPast Producer
Ammons Branch PlacerGoldOccurrenceGold
H.W. Bartley PropertyGoldOccurrence
Hamby MineGoldPast ProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in Rabun County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Satolah in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 2 hail, 1 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 2012HailSatolah-no account filed
May 2006HailSatolah-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindSatolah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rabun 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
Three Forks1.9 miles18
Pine Mountain3.5 miles18
Spring Lake6.2 miles24
Sky Valley7.4 miles24
Antioch8.9 miles24
Dillard10.4 miles24
York11.1 miles24
Mountain City11.4 miles24

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.

Wikipedia article on SatolahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65041829The 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 332986. 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.