Town Creek, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Blairsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30512. It stands on Fain Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacks Gap quadrangle.

Town Creek within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1886 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1896 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1935 USGS Jacks Gap quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Jacks Gap quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jacks Gap quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Jacks Gap quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

182 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Town Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,192 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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 burning	136
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Smoking	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Town Creek: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Corundum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Track Rock Corundum Mine	Corundum	Past Producer
Coosa Creek Gold Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Crumley Creek	Gold	Past Producer	Placer

Every working recorded in Union 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fain	0.2 miles	22
Hood (historical)	1.7 miles	23
Choestoe	2.1 miles	23
Laura (historical)	2.2 miles	23
Caldwell (historical)	3.5 miles	23
Owltown	3.8 miles	23
Hood	4.1 miles	22
Otto (historical)	5.8 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333252. 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.