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Victoria Landing, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Woodstock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30189. It stands on Kellogg Creek. The Survey maps it on the South Canton quadrangle.

Victoria Landing within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

294 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 294 fires within 5 miles of Victoria Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,028 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 103 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/incendiarism103
Debris and open burning96
Misuse of fire by a minor41
Recreation and ceremony25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking7
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 1993Debris and open burning29 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHEROKEE-006
29 September 1993Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CHEROKEE-025
26 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CHEROKEE-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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 Victoria Landing: 20 prospects, 15 occurrences, 12 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Mica, Zinc. 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
AllatoonaTitaniumOccurrence
Bartow Furnace MineIronPast Producer
Bell-Star MineIron, ManganeseProspect1918
Evalee Richards ProspectZinc, Copper, LeadProspect
Allatoona VeinGold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Avery MineGold, SilverProspectVein
Delay ProspectMicaProspect
Hause MinesMicaPast Producer
Bell-StarGoldPast ProducerVein
Casteel MineGoldProspectVein

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Victoria1.3 miles22
Kellogg Creek North2.2 miles23
Little River Landing2.3 miles22
Etowah Mills2.4 miles24
Heritage Place2.6 miles23
Cedar Mill Crossing2.7 miles24
Kellogg Creek2.9 miles23
Cherokee2.9 miles22

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 Q122539876The 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 333330. 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.