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Sautee, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Helen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30571. It stands on Ben Creek. The Survey maps it on the Helen quadrangle.

Sautee within White County

On record in Sautee

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 2017

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

The Old Sautee Store, a store founded in 1872 in a Georgia town with an unusual name: Sautee Nacoochee, derived from names for two area Indian sub-tribes
The Old Sautee Store, a store founded in 1872 in a Georgia town with an unusual name: Sautee Nacoochee, derived from names for two area Indian sub-tribes
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
The Stovall Mill Covered Bridge outside a White County, Georgia town with a most unusual name: Sautee Nacoochee
The Stovall Mill Covered Bridge outside a White County, Georgia town with a most unusual name: Sautee Nacoochee
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Sautee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 656 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 13 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 burning108
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1999Debris and open burning3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-HABERSHAM-014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Sautee: 21 prospects, 10 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Platinum, Tungsten, 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
White County OccurrencesPlatinum, Tungsten, GoldOccurrencePLACER
Bell Davis PropertyGoldPast ProducerVein
Childs MineGoldPast Producer
Childs PlacerGoldProspectPlacer Dominates, Some Vein Prospecting
Conley VeinGoldProspect
Deans VeinGoldProspect
Franco-AmericanGoldProspectVein Some Placer Mining Also Done
Franklin & GlennGoldProspectPlacer Dominates, Some Vein Prospecting
FrazierGoldProspectVein Some Placer Mining Also Done
Gayton PlacGoldProspectVein Some Placer Mining Also Done

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sautee in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 2021Flash FloodSautee$20,000The Emergency Manager reported Lynch Mountain Road washed out. Radar estimates indicate that 5 to 8 inches of rain occurred over the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSautee$6,000Reports of trees down on Hwy 17 near Carr Creek.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindSautee$1,000A cooperative observer reported trees and power lines down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSautee-Tree down along Panorama Dr South of Marci Lane.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSautee-Report of 4 to 5 trees down along Lynch Mountain Road between Highway 255 N and Hub Tatum Road.
March 2021Flash FloodSautee-The Emergency Manager reported flooding near the intersection of Lynch Mountain Road and Highway 255. Radar estimates indicate that 5 to 8 inches of rain occurred over the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
June 2015HailSautee-A clerk at the Sautee Inn Bed and Breakfast in Sautee reported dime to quarter sized hail.
June 2015HailSautee-A COOP observer in Sautee reported quarter sized hail.
March 2010HailSautee-A National Weather Service Cooperative observed reported penny-sized hail from the Sautee area. The hail lasted for up to five minutes.
May 2009HailSautee-The public observed nickel-sized hail near Sautee. One tree was also blown down further south near Mossy Creek as this thunderstorm developed southward toward 845 pm EDT.
July 2002HailSautee-The public reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in White 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
Lynch (historical)1.4 miles20
Naguchee (historical)1.5 miles20
Nacoochee1.6 miles20
Helen2.9 miles20
Robertstown3.6 miles20
Yonah4.9 miles23
Stovall Mill5.1 miles19
Eastburn (historical)5.3 miles19

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 Q122566733The 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 332987. 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.