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Sugar Valley, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sugar Valley-Resaca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30746. It lies near Baugh Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Sugar Valley quadrangle.

Sugar Valley within Gordon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

325 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 325 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,363 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 100 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 burning142
Arson/incendiarism100
Equipment and vehicle use26
Recreation and ceremony15
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural10
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestJOHNS CREEK
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Valley: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Silica. 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
Calhoun Shale PitClayPast Producer
County Chert PitSilicaPast Producer
Lafollette Coal and Iron Co. MineIronPast Producer
Loomis CutIronPast Producer
Old Alabama MineIronPast Producer
Sugar Valley Land Company MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gordon County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sugar Valley in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSugar Valley$500,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a chicken house and killed nearly 35,000 chickens on Mountain Loop Road in the town of Sugar Valley. Also, approximately two acres of pines trees were downed in the Johns Mountain Wildlife Area by thunderstorm winds.
May 1997HailSugar Valley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gordon 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
Hill City2.8 miles20
Resaca3.9 miles19
Damascus4.1 miles19
Water Valley (historical)4.3 miles19
Echota4.5 miles19
Calhoun5.0 miles19
Oostanaula5.3 miles17
New Town5.9 miles19

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 Sugar ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7634924The 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 333155. 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.