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Silver City, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It lies in ZIP code area 30028. The Survey maps it on the Coal Mountain quadrangle.

Silver City within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Silver City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 356 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 47 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 burning106
Arson/incendiarism47
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking5
Natural5

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 burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FORSYTH-002
16 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FORSYTH-002
13 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-DAWSON-003
12 September 2002Arson/incendiarism6.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FORSYTH-004
1 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-DAWSON-002
28 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Silver City: 7 prospects, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Barium-Barite. 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
Harrison ProspectMicaProspect
Whatley PropertyBarium-BaritePast Producer
BarrettGoldProspectVein
Barrett AuGoldProspectVein
CrawfordGoldProspectVein
HayesGoldProspectVein
Kim Mori MinesGoldPast ProducerVein
Kin Mori MineGoldPast Producer
LooperGoldPast ProducerVein
McguireGoldProspectVein Veined Zones

Every working recorded in Dawson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver City in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 1 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSilver City$7,000The Dawson County 911 center reported several trees and a few power lines blown down across the southeast corner of the county. Damage stretched from around the intersection of A T Moore Road and Kelly Bridge Road west of Silver City to the Lumpkin area, including Clayton Wallace Road, Sweetgum Drive and Highway 53 north and south of GA400.
June 2015HailSilver City-The Dawson County 911 Center reported quarter sized hail near Silver City. One tree was also reported blown down in north Dawson County.

Every storm recorded in Dawson 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
Barrettsville2.2 miles22
Dougherty4.3 miles18
Lumpkin4.6 miles19
Dawsonville6.0 miles18
Hubbardsville6.8 miles22
Landrum7.5 miles18
McKee8.8 miles19
Juno10.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333054. 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.