Shake Rag, Georgia

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.

• 1890 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1992 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:24000
• 1999 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Shake Rag between 1992 and 2016, burning about 282 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Johns Creek
• Warsaw
• Alpharette
• Ocee

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Shake Rag: 4 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Fulton County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333012. 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.