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Snow Springs, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Adairsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30103. It stands on Snow Springs Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Adairsville quadrangle.

Snow Springs within Bartow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

454 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 454 fires within 5 miles of Snow Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,399 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 201 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
Arson/incendiarism201
Debris and open burning174
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use22
Recreation and ceremony14
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2001Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-BARTOW-006
9 September 1998Debris and open burning4.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2007Arson/incendiarism3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism63 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BARTOW-000
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BARTOW-010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 66 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 66 workings within 5 miles of Snow Springs: 32 prospects, 31 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Barnsley Garden ProspectManganese, AluminumProspect
Kerr PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1919
Universal Ceramics PitClayProducer
Highway QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Howard Hydraulic Cement Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
NannieManganeseOccurrence1919
Saylor PropertyManganesePast Producer1917
Sherman PropertyManganesePast Producer1895
Armstrong MineAluminumPast Producer
Church MineAluminumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bartow 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
Adairsville3.0 miles18
Summit (historical)3.0 miles18
Halls3.5 miles18
Pleasant Valley6.0 miles19
Eves (historical)6.7 miles19
Murchisons (historical)7.0 miles18
Woollys (historical)7.1 miles18
Kingston7.3 miles18

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 Q122557908The 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 333084. 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.