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Tabernacle, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Buchanan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30176. It stands on Kiser Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buchanan quadrangle.

Tabernacle within Haralson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

385 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 385 fires within 5 miles of Tabernacle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,071 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 150 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 burning162
Arson/incendiarism150
Equipment and vehicle use32
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARALSON-007
9 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HARALSON008
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HARALSON009
6 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning75 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HARALSON018
28 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haralson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Tabernacle: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur, Aluminum. 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
Bauxite MineAluminumPast Producer
Jackson-Mcbride ProspectSulfurOccurrence
Crew ProspectGoldOccurrenceStream Placer
Edwards MineGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
No NameGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Haralson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tabernacle in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 2 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindTabernacle$10,000The Haralson County 911 center reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across the county from northwest through southeast of Buchanan. Locations include Morgan Road at McBrayer Road, around the intersection of Jacksonville Road and Old Jacksonville Circle, Highway 120 and Jacksonville Road, McWhorter Circle, Alabama Avenue at Valley Run Drive, and around the intersection of Morgan Road and Cashtown Road.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindTabernacle$1,000Report of a tree down along Macedonia Church Rd.

Every storm recorded in Haralson 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
Buchanan1.8 miles16
West Bremen3.9 miles16
West Crossing4.0 miles15
Poplar Springs4.6 miles14
Budapest4.7 miles15
Tallapoosa4.9 miles15
Old Tallapoosa4.9 miles14
Bremen5.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350672. 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.