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Steeles Mill, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Towalaga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30248. The Survey maps it on the Luella quadrangle.

Steeles Mill within Spalding County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

256 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 256 fires within 5 miles of Steeles Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 657 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 43 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 burning140
Arson/incendiarism43
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
30 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Smoking3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-SPALDING-010
17 September 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spalding County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Steeles Mill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite. 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
Flatrock QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Spalding County

Storms near this place

6 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steeles Mill in 6 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSteeles Mill$3,000The Emergency Manager relayed a report of three trees down along the 1600 and 1700 blocks of Locust Grove Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSteeles Mill$1,000Emergency manager reported a tree down at the intersection of Amelia Rd and Apple Rd.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSteeles Mill$1,000The Emergency Manager relayed a report of a tree down in the 300 block of East Anderson Road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSteeles Mill$1,000The Emergency Manager relayed a report of a downed tree in the 600 block of Wallace Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSteeles Mill$1,000Tree down at 2000 block of Locust Grove Rd .
September 2019Thunderstorm WindSteeles Mill$1,000The Spalding County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down near the intersection of Chuli Road and Locust Grove Road.

Every storm recorded in Spalding 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
Pleasant Grove2.4 miles10
Walker Mill3.1 miles10
Towalaga3.6 miles10
East Griffin6.6 miles11
Pomona7.8 miles9
Griffin7.9 miles9
Highland Mills8.0 miles9
Caruso8.1 miles9

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 Q122543227The 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 330991. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.