Tube, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Three Sisters Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30533. The Survey maps it on the Dahlonega quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Tube within Lumpkin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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
1951 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

514 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 514 fires within 5 miles of Tube (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,028 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 71 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	318
Arson/incendiarism	71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Recreation and ceremony	22
Natural	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Smoking	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
8 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2007	Natural	7.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	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 Lumpkin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Tube (historical): 36 past producers, 8 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Silver. 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
C M Moore Estate Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Columbia Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Unnamed Mica Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Colwell Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fields Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Arnold Consolidated Gold Mines	Gold	Past Producer
Barlow Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Bast Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Beers Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Boly Field Mine	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lumpkin 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
Cane Creek	2.3 miles	21
Wild (historical)	2.4 miles	18
Dahlonega	2.8 miles	18
Stay (historical)	3.3 miles	18
Fort Smith	4.1 miles	24
Porter Springs	4.1 miles	24
Buckhorn Tavern	4.9 miles	21
Garland	5.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357217. 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.