Walnut, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Three Sisters Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30528. It stands on Dicks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Neel Gap quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Walnut within Lumpkin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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.

1886 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1896 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Dahlonega quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1935 USGS Neels Gap quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Neels Gap quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Neels Gap quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Neels Gap quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Walnut (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 7,959 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 44 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	95
Arson/incendiarism	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LUMPKIN-001
31 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-LUMPKIN-009
22 August 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-LUMPKIN-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lumpkin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Turners Corner	1.3 miles	24
Gates (historical)	2.5 miles	24
Willow (historical)	3.0 miles	24
Porter Springs	3.3 miles	24
Fort Smith	4.0 miles	24
Tube (historical)	7.4 miles	18
Stay (historical)	7.7 miles	18
Wild (historical)	8.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357220. 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.