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Townsend Mill, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It lies in ZIP code area 30582. It stands on Bitter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hiawassee quadrangle.

Townsend Mill within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

195 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Townsend Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,179 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 9 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 burning147
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural3
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
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestIVY LOG GAP
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-UNION-001
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TOWNS-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Townsend Mill: 6 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Corundum, 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
Mcconell EstateManganesePast Producer1919
Hog Creek Corundum MineCorundumPast Producer
Track Rock Corundum MineCorundumPast Producer
E.R. Brown MineGoldProspectVein
Kerby ProspectGoldProspectVein
Killian MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Lot 184 MineGoldUnknownVein
Malden ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Murdock Vein MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Placer MineGoldProspectVein

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Trackrock (historical)0.9 miles24
Caldwell (historical)3.3 miles23
Ebenezer4.0 miles23
Blairsville5.7 miles23
Spile6.0 miles23
Spilo (historical)6.1 miles23
Hood (historical)6.3 miles23
Youngstown6.5 miles23

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 Q122563466The 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 333255. 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.