BlockTunnel Hill, Georgia
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the West Whitfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30755. It stands on Mount Vernon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tunnel Hill quadrangle. 963 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 840 feet above sea level.
On record in Tunnel Hill
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Population over time
2 figuresTunnel Hill grew from 856 to 963 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 856 | |
| 2020 | 963 | +107 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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 Ringgold quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Catoosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1892 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1935 USGS Tunnel Hill quadrangle1:24000
- 1943 USGS Tunnel Hill quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Tunnel Hill quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
488 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 488 fires within 5 miles of Tunnel Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,310 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 84 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 | 264 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 84 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 52 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 38 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Tunnel Hill: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Manganese, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catoosa Mining Co Prospects | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Fox and Dowler Property | Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | 1889 | |
| Hammontree Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Tunnel Hill Distr. | Past Producer | Residual |
Storms near this place
14 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tunnel Hill in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Lightning | Tunnel Hill | 1 hurt | The Dalton Daily Citizen reported that a man was injured when lightning struck a nearby tree. The lightning bolt traveled from the tree through a wooden shed, in which the man was working, then down a shovel hanging on the wall and then on to the man's foot. The shovel was splintered. The man's foot turned completely black during the incident and remained numb for four hours. The man was taken to an emergency room and remained there for four hours before recovering and being released. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunnel Hill | $100,000 | The Whitfield County Emergency Management Director reported that a home on Alpison Road in Cohutta was destroyed when several large trees fell on the structure. Amateur radio operators relayed reports that school buses encountered several downed trees and power outages. The Whitfield County Emergency Management Director also reported that a few trees were down around Dalton with scattered power outages. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunnel Hill | $50,000 | The Whitfield County Emergency Management Director reported that at least seven trees were blown down around Tunnel Hill. One of the trees fell on a house on Tunnel-Hill Varnell Road causing significant damage to the structure. Some power lines and power poles were also down in the area. |
| September 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunnel Hill | $25,000 | The public reported that a tree was down on a home in Tunnel Hill causing damage to the structure. |
| February 1999 | Lightning | Tunnel Hill | $5,000 | Lightning caused minor fire damage to a home in Tunnel Hill when it struck a cable line. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunnel Hill | $1,000 | The Whitfield County 911 Center reported that a couple of trees were blown down on the north side of Dalton and a power line was down in Tunnel Hill. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunnel Hill | $1,000 | The Whitfield County 911 center reported that several trees were down. An amateur radio operator reported that another tree was down near Varnell. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunnel Hill | $1,000 | The public reported several trees down. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Tunnel Hill | - | The public observed penny-sized hail near Dawnville. WSR-88D radar data suggests that similar-sized hail, possibly even larger, likely fell from west to east across the county from Tunnel Hill to Dawnville. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Tunnel Hill | - | The public observed penny-sized hail. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Tunnel Hill | - | A storm spotter reported penny to nickel-sized hail, especially in the Dalton area. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Tunnel Hill | - | The public reported that nickel-sized hail fell for up to ten minutes in the Tunnel Hill area along the Whitfield/Catoosa county line. The hail covered the ground during the event. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Tunnel Hill | - | The public reported that penny-sized hail fell for 30 minutes. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Tunnel Hill | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Callaway Mill | 1.1 miles | 25 | |
| Rocky Face | 2.6 miles | 25 | |
| Hassler Mill | 3.0 miles | 25 | |
| Trickum | 3.7 miles | 25 | |
| Waring | 3.8 miles | 21 | |
| Mount Vernon | 3.9 miles | 25 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 5.4 miles | 21 | |
| Varnell | 5.5 miles | 24 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Tunnel Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3261571 | The 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 333273. 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.