Smith City, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Moreland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30259. The Survey maps it on the Newnan South quadrangle.

Smith City within Coweta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Newnan South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

272 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 272 fires within 5 miles of Smith City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 909 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 21 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	174
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Arson/incendiarism	21
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Natural	10
Smoking	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	6

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 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-COWETA-005
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MERIWETHER-003
4 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coweta 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 Smith City: 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Bingham Property	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer
Lone Oak/Post/Wilkes	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Post	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Wilkes	Gold	Prospect	Vein

Every working recorded in Coweta 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
Saint Charles	0.9 miles	10
Bexton	1.3 miles	9
Moreland	1.7 miles	10
Grantville	4.4 miles	10
Oaklawn	4.7 miles	10
Cureton Springs (historical)	4.9 miles	10
Stephens Crossroad	4.9 miles	10
Bohanon Crossroad	5.7 miles	10

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 Q122573119

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 350766. 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.