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West Crossing, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tallapoosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30176. It lies near West Hill. The Survey maps it on the Bremen quadrangle.

West Crossing within Haralson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

474 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 474 fires within 5 miles of West Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,834 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 228 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/incendiarism228
Debris and open burning179
Equipment and vehicle use24
Recreation and ceremony13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural6
Smoking3

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
8 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-HARALSON-007
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WALKER-017
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HARALSON008
5 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARALSON-004
4 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-HARALSON-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haralson County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of West Crossing: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur, 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
Jackson-Mcbride ProspectSulfurOccurrence
Crew ProspectGoldOccurrenceStream Placer
Edwards MineGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Hollins (Royal) MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Royal MineGoldPast Producer

Every working 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
Budapest1.8 miles15
Tallapoosa2.5 miles15
Old Tallapoosa3.2 miles14
Waco3.8 miles15
Tabernacle4.0 miles16
Hooper4.9 miles15
Bremen5.3 miles15
West Bremen5.4 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 Q122547184The 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 333391. 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.