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The Noles Estates, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairplay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30187. It stands on Nancy Long Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winston quadrangle.

The Noles Estates within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of The Noles Estates between 1992 and 2019, burning about 680 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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 burning58
Arson/incendiarism21
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking3
Natural2

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
26 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor18 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-DOUGLAS-001
21 July 1993Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-DOUGLAS-002
10 July 1993Arson/incendiarism4.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 The Noles Estates: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Keaten-Thomas ProspectIron-Pyrite, Gold, CopperOccurrenceGossan
Keaton-Thomas ProspectSulfurProspect
Villa Rica QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
No NameGoldPast ProducerVein
No Name, Lot 77 2nd Dist.GoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Sweetwater Bluff1.2 miles17
Fairplay1.5 miles17
Daniell Mill Estates1.9 miles17
McWhorter2.3 miles17
Hollis Heights2.4 miles17
Aberdeen Estates2.4 miles17
Tyree2.5 miles16
Oakdale Estates2.7 miles17

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 Q122546906The 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 1686541. 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.