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Tidings, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Little Sand Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30747. It stands on Storey Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Armuchee quadrangle.

Tidings within Chattooga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

261 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Tidings between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,796 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 44 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/incendiarism44
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking1
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 1997Debris and open burning8.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CHATTOOGA-025

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattooga County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tidings: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Maddox's Mine AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Maddox's Mine Area-BIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant

Every working recorded in Chattooga County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tidings in 2 storm reports in 2006: 2 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
September 2006HailTidings$1,000The public reported quarter-sized hail. Some windows were broken in at least one home.
June 2006HailTidings-The Floyd County Sheriff, while driving through southern Chattooga county on U.S. Highway 27, observed penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Chattooga 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
Storys (historical)0.4 miles16
Kartah1.6 miles16
Shackelton (historical)1.9 miles16
Gore3.1 miles16
Silver Hill3.5 miles16
Zula (historical)4.0 miles16
Cheney (historical)4.0 miles16
Farmersville4.4 miles16

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 Q122542511The 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 333231. 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.