Shirley Grove, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Turnerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30523. It lies near Apple Pie Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Tallulah Falls quadrangle.

Shirley Grove within Habersham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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 Walhalla quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1896 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Tallulah Falls quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Shirley Grove between 1992 and 2018, burning about 847 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 19 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	67
Arson/incendiarism	19
Natural	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	COMMUNITY LANE
23 September 1999	Natural	3.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	Y CAMP
12 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HABERSHAM-001
16 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Habersham County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Shirley Grove: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Panther Creek Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Pyrrhotite

Every working recorded in Habersham 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
Tallulah Park (historical)	1.0 miles	19
Tallulah Falls	1.5 miles	19
Turnerville	2.1 miles	19
Tugaloo	2.6 miles	20
Hollywood	4.9 miles	19
Anandale (historical)	6.7 miles	19
Midway	7.0 miles	18
Dixon Crossroads	7.6 miles	19

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 Q122569093

The 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 333036. 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.