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Sprayberry Farms, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hiram census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30141. It stands on Davis Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nebo quadrangle.

Sprayberry Farms within Paulding County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

414 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 414 fires within 5 miles of Sprayberry Farms between 1992 and 2019, burning about 652 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 104 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 burning218
Arson/incendiarism104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Misuse of fire by a minor26
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
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
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019PAULDING002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Paulding County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Sprayberry Farms: 5 past producers, 5 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Mica, Gold, Iron-Pyrite, Zinc. 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
Berg ProspectIron-Pyrite, CopperOccurrencePyrite
Little Bob MineCopper, Sulfur, ZincPast Producer
Shirley MineIron-Pyrite, ZincOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
No NameGoldPast ProducerVein
Shirley MineGoldPast Producer
Berg ProspectSulfurProspect
Choran ProspectMicaProspect
Dean MineMicaPast Producer
Henry Winn MineSulfurPast Producer
Imel PitMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Paulding 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
Ashley Acres0.9 miles17
Pine Valley Estates1.4 miles20
Green Meadows1.5 miles17
Colonial Hills1.5 miles17
Bromley Estates1.6 miles17
Deer Run1.8 miles17
Mill Creek Place1.8 miles17
The Highlands1.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122596988The 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 349948. 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.