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Sunnyside, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hiawassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30546. It stands on Sutton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hiawassee quadrangle.

Sunnyside within Towns County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

258 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 258 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,515 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 26 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 burning167
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural4

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
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestIVY RIDGE
18 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServiceSNEAKING CREEK
12 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TOWNS-001
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Towns County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Sunnyside: 4 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Iron-Pyrite, Corundum, Manganese. 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
Bell Mtn Silica MineSilicaPast Producer
Berrong Prospect (Johnson Copper Prospect)Copper, Iron-PyriteOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Cynth Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hog Creek Corundum MineCorundumPast Producer
Mcconell EstateManganesePast Producer1919
Kerby ProspectGoldProspectVein
Malden ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Towns County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunnyside in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 2 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
March 2013Thunderstorm WindSunnyside$30,000The Towns County 911 Center reported that a tree had blown down on a home south of Hiawassee.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindSunnyside$2,500Ameteur radio operators relayed reports of trees down across most of Towns County, especially in the east side of the county.
June 2015HailSunnyside-Employees at the Long Ridge Camp Ground reported quarter sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Towns 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
Hiawassee1.5 miles24
Beech Cove Vista1.7 miles22
Friendship2.2 miles24
Hunt (historical)2.8 miles24
Macedonia3.0 miles22
Presley3.2 miles22
Cedar Cliff3.4 miles24
Young Harris3.7 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333164. 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.