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Silver Hill, 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. The Survey maps it on the Summerville quadrangle.

Silver Hill 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.

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 Silver Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,844 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 120 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 burning155
Arson/incendiarism120
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Natural9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

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
5 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHATTOOGA-017
29 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CHATTOOGA-025
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattooga County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Silver Hill: 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Culbertson MineAluminumPast Producer
Maddox's Mine AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Maddox's Mine Area-BIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant

Every working recorded in Chattooga County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver Hill in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindSilver Hill$5,000Dispatch reported multiple power lines down along Silver Leaf Drive.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSilver Hill$1,000Tree down along Rocking R Ranch Circle near Clarks Creek.
March 2021Flash FloodSilver Hill-The Emergency Manager reported the intersection of Foster Hill Manning and Silver Hill Roads was flooded from high water from Moss Creek. Radar estimates indicate that rainfall of 4 to 6 inches occurred in the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
March 2021Flash FloodSilver Hill-The Emergency Manager reported water over Jenkins Gap Road. Radar estimates indicate that rainfall in the area ranged between 3 and 6 inches, resulting in the flash flooding.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cheney (historical)0.6 miles16
Shackelton (historical)2.8 miles16
Storys (historical)3.1 miles16
Tidings3.5 miles16
Kartah4.4 miles16
Gore4.8 miles16
Taliaferro (historical)4.9 miles17
Holland4.9 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on Silver HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058924The 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 333056. 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.