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Sulphur Springs Station, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Trenton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30738. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs quadrangle.

Sulphur Springs Station within Dade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

353 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 353 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,064 acres in total. None started naturally. 176 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/incendiarism176
Debris and open burning122
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
7 September 2010Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-003
30 September 1998Arson/incendiarism7.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150902-002
19 September 1993Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150918-002
16 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-011
14 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs Station: 12 prospects, 11 occurrences, 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, 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
Halloysite MineClayPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectSulfur-PyriteProspect
Bibble MineIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Blake's Mine Et Al.IronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
J.C.Mcelroy ProspectIronOccurrence
L.O.Clark ProspectIronOccurrence
Ragon Mining Co. Battelle AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
UnnamedIronPast ProducerHematite
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dade 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
Amos Mill2.3 miles23
Cloverdale2.4 miles23
Head River2.8 miles23
Rising Fawn5.0 miles23
Plum Nelly7.7 miles25
Cedar Hill8.6 miles23
Stewart Town9.2 miles23
Tatum (historical)10.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122593137The 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 356568. 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.