Tate City, Georgia
23 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 30525. It stands on Denton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hightower Bald quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresTate City grew from 16 to 27 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 16 | |
| 2020 | 27 | +11 (+69%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1896 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
- 1903 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1935 USGS Hightower Bald quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Hightower Bald quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Hightower Bald quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Hightower Bald quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
48 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Tate City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 26,221 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 17 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 burning | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2002 | Natural | 15 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | CEDAR CLIFF |
| 30 July 1993 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | not named |
| 22 July 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | SHOAL BRANCH |
| 14 July 1993 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | not named |
| 18 June 2008 | Natural | 54 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | RIDGEPOLE MTN. |
| 6 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | PERSIMMON CREEK |
| 25 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Tate City: 5 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Iron-Pyrite, Gold, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Coward Gap Prospect | Iron-Pyrite, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Massive Sulfide | |
| Tom Coward Gap Prospect | Sulfur | Occurrence | ||
| Barclay Mine | Gold, Silver | Prospect | Vein | |
| Bentley Mine | Gold, Silver | Prospect | Vein | |
| Barclay Gold Mine | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Moore Girl Mine | Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Moore Girl's Mine | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Newton Placer Mine | Gold | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Titus | 4.7 miles | 22 | |
| Visage (historical) | 7.0 miles | 22 | |
| Osborn | 8.7 miles | 22 | |
| Macedonia | 10.0 miles | 22 | |
| Presley | 10.4 miles | 22 | |
| Hunt (historical) | 10.5 miles | 24 | |
| Beech Cove Vista | 10.7 miles | 22 | |
| Hiawassee | 11.0 miles | 24 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Tate City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7687946 | The 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 356585. 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.










