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Sweetwater Bluff, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairplay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30135. It stands on Flyblow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winston quadrangle.

Sweetwater Bluff within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Sweetwater Bluff between 1992 and 2019, burning about 704 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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 burning56
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking2
Natural2

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
21 August 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-DOUGLAS-001
21 July 1993Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 2006Recreation and ceremony2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-DOUGLAS-002
4 June 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 June 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 Sweetwater Bluff: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron-Pyrite, Gold, Copper, Sulfur, Gold. 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
Circle P Ranch Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Keaten-Thomas ProspectIron-Pyrite, Gold, CopperOccurrenceGossan
Keaton-Thomas ProspectSulfurProspect
No NameGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
The Noles Estates1.2 miles17
McWhorter1.3 miles17
Fairplay1.4 miles17
Hollis Heights1.8 miles17
River West2.1 miles17
Worthington Estates2.4 miles17
Oakdale Estates2.4 miles17
Aberdeen Estates2.4 miles17

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 Q122571557The 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 1686537. 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.