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Sprite, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lyerly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30730. The Survey maps it on the Chattoogaville quadrangle.

Sprite within Chattooga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

305 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 305 fires within 5 miles of Sprite between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,506 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 151 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/incendiarism151
Debris and open burning119
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
5 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FLOYD-017
26 September 2019Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CHATTOOGA009
25 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-FLOYD-029

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattooga County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sprite: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Floyd County MineClayProducer
Lavender Clay PitClayProducer
Lavender PitClayProducer
Neill Georgia PitClayProducer
Oconee Clay Products Co PitsClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chattooga 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
Poetry0.4 miles16
Holland4.6 miles17
Chattoogaville4.8 miles16
Taliaferro (historical)6.2 miles17
Lyerly8.0 miles17
Cheney (historical)8.5 miles16
Silver Hill9.1 miles16
Berryton11.2 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 Q122595886The 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 333108. 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.