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West Bremen, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bremen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30110. The Survey maps it on the Buchanan quadrangle.

West Bremen within Haralson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

420 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 420 fires within 5 miles of West Bremen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 968 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 157 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 burning185
Arson/incendiarism157
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony12
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural6
Smoking2

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 burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARALSON-007
9 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HARALSON-007
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-HARALSON-007
7 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haralson County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of West Bremen: 6 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur, Iron, Aluminum. 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
Bauxite MineAluminumPast Producer
Reeds Mountain MineSulfur, IronPast Producer
Reeds Mt. MineIron-PyritePast ProducerVein
Jackson-Mcbride ProspectSulfurOccurrence
Crew ProspectGoldOccurrenceStream Placer
Dean PropertyGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
J.W. Thomason's PropertyGoldOccurrenceStream Placer
No NameGoldPast ProducerVein
No NameGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Haralson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Bremen in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Bremen$4,000Two trees reported down near the intersection of Poseyville Road and Heritage Lane.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindWest Bremen$2,000Trees and powerlines down near the intersection of 27 and poseyville rd.
June 2015HailWest Bremen-Employees at James ONeal Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep reported quarter size hail at their location along U.S. Highway 27 north northwest of Bremen.

Every storm recorded in Haralson 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
Bremen2.4 miles15
Tabernacle3.9 miles16
Buchanan3.9 miles16
Morgan4.0 miles15
Waco4.1 miles15
Budapest4.7 miles15
West Crossing5.4 miles15
Piney Woods6.9 miles16

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 Q122562065The 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 326584. 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.