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Summit Hill, Georgia

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ringgold census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30736. It lies near The Backbone. The Survey maps it on the East Ridge quadrangle.

Summit Hill within Catoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

473 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 473 fires within 5 miles of Summit Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 738 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 61 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 burning245
Arson/incendiarism61
Equipment and vehicle use55
Misuse of fire by a minor39
Smoking29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CATOOSA-008
8 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CATOOSA-005
8 September 1998Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CATOOSA-006
6 September 2002Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CATOOSA-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Summit Hill: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnnamedIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Graysville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hales QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Catoosa County

Storms near this place

3 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit Hill in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindSummit Hill$1,000Tree down in the road near the intersection of highway 41 and boofer road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSummit Hill$1,000Tree in the roadway on Mohawk Trail .
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSummit Hill$1,000Tree reported down across Hwy-41 near Three Notch Rd.

Every storm recorded in Catoosa 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
Indian Springs0.5 miles28
New Liberty0.8 miles28
Opeleika (historical)1.5 miles28
Swanson Mill1.5 miles28
Graysville1.5 miles28
Foster Hills1.6 miles28
Morris Estates1.7 miles28
Blevins Acre1.7 miles28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333159. 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.