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Stilesboro, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Euharlee-Taylorsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30178. The Survey maps it on the Taylorsville quadrangle.

Stilesboro 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

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Stilesboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,451 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 109 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/incendiarism109
Debris and open burning79
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony4

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 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1993Debris and open burning15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning21 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BARTOW-007
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Debris and open burning11 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartow County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Stilesboro: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Manganese. 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
Cochran PropertyManganeseProspect1918
Taylorsville MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bartow County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stilesboro in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindStilesboro$26,000The public reported that a small thunderstorm with a downburst or microburst blew a portion of a roof off a home on Hawkins Road. An adjacent shed was completely destroyed. Two trees were also blown down.
March 2021HailStilesboro-An amateur radio operator reported hail the size of quarters along Highway 113 near Plant Bowen.

Every storm 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
McGinnis (historical)2.1 miles18
Shellman (historical)2.2 miles18
Malbone (historical)2.8 miles18
Euharlee2.9 miles18
Browns (historical)3.0 miles19
Valley Oak Acres3.2 miles18
Indian Valley3.5 miles18
Parkerosa3.7 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.

Wikipedia article on StilesboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7616963The 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 356563. 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.