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Valley Oak Acres, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cartersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30120. It stands on Richland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burnt Hickory Ridge quadrangle.

Valley Oak Acres within Bartow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Valley Oak Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,246 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 101 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
Arson/incendiarism101
Debris and open burning70
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
9 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1993Debris and open burning15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning21 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BARTOW-007
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Debris and open burning11 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Valley Oak Acres: 8 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Manganese, Iron, Calcium. 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
Jones MineSand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Ladd Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cartersville OperationBarium-Barite, CalciumPast Producer
Cyprus Thompson Weinman MineBarium-Barite, CalciumPast Producer
Unnamed Iron DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed Iron DepositIronOccurrence
C.C. Brown PropertyManganeseProspect1919
Calhoun and Locke PropertyManganeseProspect1917
Cochran PropertyManganeseProspect1918
Pitman PropertyManganeseOccurrence1919

Every working recorded in Bartow 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
Indian Valley0.6 miles18
Browns (historical)0.7 miles19
Shellman (historical)1.4 miles18
Parkerosa1.8 miles18
Malbone (historical)2.3 miles18
Ladds2.4 miles19
Mission Estates2.8 miles19
Deerfield Estates2.8 miles19

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 Q122554790The 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 334362. 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.