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Smiths Store, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Comer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30627. The Survey maps it on the Carlton quadrangle.

Smiths Store within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Smiths Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 493 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 35 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 burning96
Arson/incendiarism35
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor6

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
6 September 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-ELBERT-006
27 September 2016Debris and open burning10 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-OGLETHORPE-004
24 September 2012Debris and open burning3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-ELBERT-004
22 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Smiths Store: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Plantation QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Turner Sand OperationsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kantala QuarryGraniteProducer
Keystone Blue Quarry Keystone GrGraniteProducer
New Blue QuarryGraniteProducer
Royalty Blue QuarryGraniteProducer
Service QuarryGraniteProducer

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Carlton1.4 miles14
Newtown1.9 miles14
Ross2.9 miles14
Paoli4.7 miles14
Vineyard Creek5.6 miles14
Comer5.9 miles14
Jeptha7.2 miles14
Gholston Stand Crossroads7.3 miles14

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 Q122554674The 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 335552. 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.