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Waring, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dalton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30721. It stands on Poplar Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dalton North quadrangle.

Waring within Whitfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

394 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 394 fires within 5 miles of Waring between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,645 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 58 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 burning218
Arson/incendiarism58
Equipment and vehicle use32
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony17
Smoking11
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Debris and open burning5.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WALKER-018
8 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Waring: 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, 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
Catoosa Mining Co ProspectsManganeseOccurrence
Hammontree ProspectIronOccurrence
Cooper PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bare PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence1919
Eslinger PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence1919
Fox and Dowler PropertyIron, ManganesePast Producer1889
Tunnel Hill Distr.Past ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Whitfield County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waring in 1 storm report in 2000: 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 2000HailWaring-A HAM radio operator reported widespread dime and some nickel size hail in Waring.

Every storm recorded in Whitfield 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
Pleasant Grove1.6 miles21
Plainview3.3 miles24
Fillmore (historical)3.3 miles21
Hassler Mill3.3 miles25
Cedar Valley3.5 miles21
Rocky Face3.6 miles25
Tunnel Hill3.8 miles25
Dalton4.5 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333365. 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.