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Sybert, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lincolnton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30817. The Survey maps it on the Metasville quadrangle.

Sybert within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Sybert between 1992 and 2020, burning about 568 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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 burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking7
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WILKES-011
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-LINCOLN-003
2 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-LINCOLN-005
16 September 2010Debris and open burning5.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LINCOLN-002
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2007Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-WILKES-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Sybert: 9 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Gold, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver. 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
Chambers MineSilver, Copper, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer1892, 1895
Magruder MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Seminole/Magruder/Wardlaw/Jackson VeinsCopper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Iron-Pyrite, ZincPast ProducerSilver, Gold, Copper, Pyrite, Sphalerite, Galena, Chalcopyrite
Chamber MineGoldPast Producer
G.W. Booker PropertyGoldPast ProducerVein
Goldman Mn MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
Kendall MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Morgan FarmManganeseProspect1945
Morgans Mn MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
Ross PropertyManganeseProspect1945

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Lovelace1.8 miles14
Curry Hill2.3 miles14
Goshen4.2 miles14
Lincolnton4.3 miles16
Midway4.4 miles14
Honora6.8 miles14
Chennault6.9 miles14
White Rock (historical)7.3 miles16

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 Q122591581The 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 326539. 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.