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Sumac, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Crandall-Eton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30705. It stands on McIntire Branch. The Survey maps it on the Beaverdale quadrangle.

Sumac within Murray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

302 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 302 fires within 5 miles of Sumac between 1992 and 2019, burning about 742 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 44 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 burning168
Arson/incendiarism44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking3

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 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestHICKORY RIDGE
8 September 2008Debris and open burning1.5 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestTURTLE
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning5.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-WHITFIELD-001
3 September 1998Debris and open burning4.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-MURRAY-004
24 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-MURRAY-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Sumac: 6 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
C.C. and J.H. Keith PropertyIronPast Producer
J.K. Keith PropertyIronPast Producer
J.W.Coffey PropertyIronOccurrence
John Johnson ProspectIronOccurrence
Keith PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual
Lafollette Coal and Iron Co ProspIronProspect
Mrs.W.R.Davis PropertyIronOccurrence
Poteet PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual
Poteet PropertyIronProspect
W R Rymer PropertyIronProspect

Every working recorded in Murray County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sumac in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSumac$1,000The Murray County 911 center reported a tree blown down on Mantooth Road south of Halls Chapel Road.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSumac$1,000The public reported that two trees were down on Georgia Highway 2 near the Whitfield county line and the community of Beaverdale while two more trees were reported down in Crandall.
September 2007Heavy RainSumac$500The Murray County 911 Center reported that heavy rain had caused portions of Georgia Highway 225 near Northwest Elementary School Road to become flooded and closed.
June 2008HailSumac-WRCB Television of Chattanooga reported that a weather spotter observed some quarter-sized hail, but mostly pea-sized hail in the Eton area.

Every storm recorded in Murray 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
Crandall3.1 miles21
Temple Grove3.4 miles19
Cohutta Springs3.8 miles22
Eton4.5 miles21
North Cohutta (historical)4.7 miles22
Gregory4.9 miles19
Cisco5.7 miles22
Oran6.5 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333157. 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.