Shackelton, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Little Sand Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30747. It stands on Moss Creek. The Survey maps it on the Summerville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Shackelton within Chattooga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1886 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000
1899 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000
1904 USGS Rome quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Summerville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Rome quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

336 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Shackelton (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,774 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 93 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	175
Arson/incendiarism	93
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CHATTOOGA006
8 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattooga 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 Shackelton (historical): 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum. 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
Summerville Bauxite	Aluminum	Past Producer	Weathering Residual
Maddox's Mine Area	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Maddox's Mine Area-B	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Menlo Area	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant

Every working recorded in Chattooga 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
Storys (historical)	1.7 miles	16
Kartah	1.8 miles	16
Tidings	1.9 miles	16
Gore	2.1 miles	16
Silver Hill	2.8 miles	16
Cheney (historical)	3.4 miles	16
Farmersville	4.3 miles	16
Summerville	4.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 344485. 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.