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Transco, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Danielsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30629. It stands on Cedar Grove Branch. The Survey maps it on the Danielsville North quadrangle.

Transco within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Transco between 1992 and 2019, burning about 286 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 14 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 burning104
Smoking19
Arson/incendiarism14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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 1997Smoking4.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2011Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-ELBERT-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Transco: 6 prospects, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Coneross River MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Carrington PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
J. Threlkeld PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
King PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
O. Threlkeld PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
Parham PlacerGoldProspectPlacer
Ridgeway PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Smith PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Webb PlacerGoldProspectPlacer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Transco in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindTransco$50,000Roof damage to home along Davids Church Road. Around 40 trees down on roads across north side of the county.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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 Grove0.7 miles15
Dalton1.7 miles15
Jeptha2.5 miles14
Porterfield3.1 miles14
Bluestone3.5 miles15
Vineyard Creek3.8 miles14
Gholston Stand Crossroads3.9 miles14
Madison Springs4.4 miles15

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 Q122594192The 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 335558. 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.