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Temple Grove, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cisco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30711. The Survey maps it on the Beaverdale quadrangle.

Temple Grove within Murray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Temple Grove between 1992 and 2019, burning about 668 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 31 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 burning120
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestHICKORY RIDGE
8 September 2008Debris and open burning1.5 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestTURTLE
7 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MURRAY-004
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Temple Grove: 4 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mill Creek Copper ProspectCopperOccurrence
Silver PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919
White PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919
F.M.Powell PropertyIronUnknown
John Johnson ProspectIronOccurrence
Lafollette Coal and Iron Co ProspIronProspect
Poteet PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual
Poteet PropertyIronProspect
W R Rymer PropertyIronProspect

Every working recorded in Murray 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
Gregory1.8 miles19
Cisco2.4 miles22
Sumac3.4 miles19
Cohutta Springs3.7 miles22
North Cohutta (historical)3.9 miles22
Tennga4.4 miles22
Crandall4.5 miles21
Doogan6.6 miles22

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 Q122565201The 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 356587. 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.