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Titus, Georgia

22 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 30546. It stands on Hall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Macedonia quadrangle.

Titus within Towns County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Titus between 1992 and 2019, burning about 25,954 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 burning56
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 August 2002Natural15 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestCEDAR CLIFF
22 July 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestSHOAL BRANCH
4 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestJEWEL MTN
27 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 May 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Carolina Forest ServiceBIRTHDAY FIRE
13 May 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresNational Forests in North CarolinaBIRTHDAY
7 April 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Carolina Forest ServicePINE RIDGE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Towns County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Titus: 7 past producers, 6 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron-Pyrite, Gold, Copper, Sulfur. 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
Jim BradleyManganeseProspect1945
Mark Rogers PropertyVermiculiteProspect
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tom Coward Gap ProspectIron-Pyrite, Gold, CopperPast ProducerMassive Sulfide
Tom Coward Gap ProspectSulfurOccurrence
Barclay Gold MineGoldPast Producer
Chastain (Branch) MineGoldProspectPlacer
Eller MineGoldProspectPlacer
Hooper & Berong ProspectGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Newton MineGoldPast ProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in Towns County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Titus in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTitus$8,000A trained storm spotter reported multiple trees down near Tate City.
May 2006HailTitus-The Towns County 911 Center reported half-dollar-sized hail in the Scataway and Hightower Road area of northeast Towns county, near Titus. The hail was reported to have covered the ground.
May 2006HailTitus-The Towns County 911 Center reported that yet another hail storm was observed in the Scataway Road area west of Titus. Once again half-dollar-sized hail covered the ground.

Every storm recorded in Towns 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
Visage (historical)2.2 miles22
Osborn4.0 miles22
Tate City4.7 miles23
Macedonia5.3 miles22
Presley5.6 miles22
Beech Cove Vista6.1 miles22
Hunt (historical)6.6 miles24
Hiawassee6.7 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333239. 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.