Soapstick, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sugar Valley-Resaca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30701. It stands on Dead Mans Branch. The Survey maps it on the Calhoun North quadrangle.

Soapstick within Gordon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1886 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1949 USGS Calhoun quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Calhoun quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Calhoun North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

318 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 318 fires within 5 miles of Soapstick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 832 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 87 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	168
Arson/incendiarism	87
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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 1993	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1998	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon 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
Angelville	0.8 miles	19
Decora	0.9 miles	18
Nickelsville	1.6 miles	18
Midway (historical)	2.3 miles	18
Audubon	3.4 miles	18
Resaca	3.4 miles	19
Fidelle	3.5 miles	18
Damascus	3.6 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 329753. 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.