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Tennga, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Cisco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30751. The Survey maps it on the Tennga quadrangle. It stands 887 feet above sea level.

Tennga within Murray County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 22 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Tennga between 1992 and 2018, burning about 573 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 27 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 burning74
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 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
28 September 1999Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning4.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 1993Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Murray County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Tennga: 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Manganese, Iron, Iron, Manganese. 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
Green PropertyManganese, IronUnknown1918
Powell PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1919
Doogan Mt. Distr.IronPast ProducerResidual
F.M.Powell PropertyIronUnknown
Miller PropertyManganeseProspect1919
Silver PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919
White PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919

Every working recorded in Murray County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tennga in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
August 2010Flash FloodTennga$3,000The United States Forest Service reported flash flooding near the merging point of the Jacks River and the Conasauga River and several smaller creeks, streams, and tributaries. Several campers and hikers were evacuated from the Alaculsy Valley Campground within the Cohutta Wildlife Management Agency. Minor flooding was also observed along portions of Old Georgia Highway 2 and Cable Road to the west near Cisco. Damage was confined to debris removal and minor erosion to a few secondary dirt roads. The heavy rain and erosion also caused a few trees to fall on minor, secondary roads within the area.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindTennga$1,000GDOT reported a tree downed along Hwy 411 near Liberty Church Rd.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindTennga$1,000The Murray County 911 Center reported that three trees were down on U.S. Highway 441 in the far northern part of the county near the Tennessee border.
February 2011HailTennga-A representative with the Georgia Forestry commission observed penny-sized hail near the Tennessee border just northwest of Tennga.

Every storm 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
Cisco2.5 miles22
Gregory3.3 miles19
Doogan4.4 miles22
Temple Grove4.4 miles19
Alaculsy5.6 miles22
North Cohutta (historical)6.5 miles22
Cohutta Springs6.8 miles22
Sumac7.8 miles19

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 TenngaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7700284The 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 329955. 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.