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Suches, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Suches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30572. It stands on Kennedy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Suches quadrangle. It stands 2,792 feet above sea level.

Suches within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Suches between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,915 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 48 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/incendiarism48
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LUMPKIN-001
2 August 1993Natural2.5 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National Forestnot named
29 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestWATERFALL
20 July 1998Natural9.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestBLOOD
2 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019LUMPKIN001
17 July 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National Forestnot named
19 June 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Suches in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
April 2009HailSuches-The Union County Emergency Management Director relayed a report of nickel-sized hail in the far southern portion of the county around Suches.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Sarah1.6 miles24
Quebec (historical)1.9 miles24
Gaddistown3.2 miles24
Baxter4.4 miles24
Otto (historical)9.3 miles23
Hood9.4 miles22
Owltown9.6 miles23
Choestoe10.3 miles23

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 SuchesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7632896The 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 333148. 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.

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.