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Villanow, Georgia

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Villanow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30728. It stands on Puryear Branch. The Survey maps it on the Villanow quadrangle.

Villanow within Walker County

On record in Villanow

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

314 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Villanow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,548 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 95 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 burning147
Arson/incendiarism95
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony16
Natural11
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestJOHNS MTN
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-WALKER-008
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021WALKER001
29 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National Forestnot named
26 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Villanow: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Naomi AreaIronPast ProducerStratabound Concordant
Sugar Valley Land Co MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Villanow in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006HailVillanow-The public reported penny to nickel-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Furnace (historical)2.1 miles25
Reo2.9 miles25
East Armuchee3.4 miles24
Greenbush (historical)4.9 miles24
Suttles Mill4.9 miles24
Naomi5.1 miles24
Chestnutflat (historical)5.7 miles24
Catlett6.7 miles24

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 VillanowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7930890The 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 333334. 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.