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Toonnerville, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Whitfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30721. It stands on Nickolson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dalton North quadrangle.

Toonnerville within Whitfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

298 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Toonnerville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 559 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 55 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 burning170
Arson/incendiarism55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony14
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking6
Natural6

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 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning5.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-WHITFIELD-001
3 September 1998Debris and open burning4.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WHITFIELD-008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Toonnerville: 3 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, 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
Lanski Property--Talc Indus IncStone, Crushed/Broken, ManganeseProducer1918
Bare PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence1919
Eslinger PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence1919
Hammontree ProspectIronOccurrence
W R Rymer PropertyIronProspect
Cooper PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
George Cline PropertyBarium-BaritePast Producer
Sam & Jw Cline PropertyBarium-BariteProspect
W. R. Cline PropertyBarium-BariteProspect

Every working recorded in Whitfield County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toonnerville in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
June 2011LightningToonnerville$100,000The Whitfield County Emergency Management Director reported that a commercial structure on Beaverdale Road was set on fire by lightning. No specific details regarding damages were provided.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindToonnerville$1,000A tree was downed on Beaverdale Rd NE at Columbus Way.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindToonnerville$1,000Tree in the roadway at Good Hope Rd NE and Hope Way.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindToonnerville$1,000The Whitfield County Emergency Manager reported trees down along Boyles Mill Road and Oakdale Road.

Every storm recorded in Whitfield 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
Cedar Valley1.6 miles21
Ruralvale1.6 miles19
Norton2.2 miles21
Prater Mill2.5 miles24
Plainview3.1 miles24
Dawnville3.4 miles21
Pleasant Grove3.9 miles21
Fillmore (historical)4.1 miles21

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 Q122570546The 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 333246. 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.