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Vans Valley, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cave Spring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30124. It stands on Little Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Livingston quadrangle.

Vans Valley within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

232 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 232 fires within 5 miles of Vans Valley between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,039 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 73 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 burning122
Arson/incendiarism73
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FLOYD-004
9 September 2002Debris and open burning20 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FLOYD-009
6 September 2007Arson/incendiarism13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FLOYD-008
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism33 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Arson/incendiarism5.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-FLOYD-027

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Vans Valley: 22 past producers, 16 prospects, 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Manganese, Iron, Cobalt, 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
CallahanManganese, Nickel, CobaltUnknownResidual
Callahan Property Cave SpringManganese, CobaltPast Producer
Gibson MineManganese, Cobalt, NickelProducerResidual
Spence PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1918
Berkstresser Prop Cave SpringCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Gibson MineCobalt, ManganesePast Producer
Cave Spring-BIronPast ProducerResidual
Cave Spring-CIronPast ProducerResidual
Cuzzort PropertyIronPast Producer1898
Porter-Shippen MineIronPast Producer1943

Every working recorded in Floyd 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
Cave Spring1.8 miles18
Landers (historical)2.3 miles17
Yancey (historical)2.3 miles17
Foster Mills2.6 miles17
Chubbtown3.6 miles18
Cunningham3.9 miles17
Melson5.3 miles17
Livingston5.8 miles17

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 Vans ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058942The 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 326570. 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.