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West Summerville, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Summerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30747. It stands on Town Branch. The Survey maps it on the Summerville quadrangle.

West Summerville within Chattooga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

603 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 603 fires within 5 miles of West Summerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,479 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 257 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 burning257
Arson/incendiarism257
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony16
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Natural7
Smoking4

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 2015Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-CHATTOOGA-009
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattooga County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of West Summerville: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Summerville BauxiteAluminumPast ProducerWeathering Residual
Taylor MineAluminumPast Producer
Maddox's Mine AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Maddox's Mine Area-BIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Menlo AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant

Every working recorded in Chattooga County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Summerville in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Summerville$25,000The Chattooga County 911 center reported several trees and power lines blown down from Summerville to north of Trion.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWest Summerville$1,500The Chattooga County 911 Center reported several trees down. One was along Fish Hatchery Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWest Summerville$250The Chattooga County 911 Center reported a tree down in the area of Filter Plant Road.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWest Summerville$250The Chattooga County Emergency Manager reported a large tree down at the intersection of Harrisburg Road and Highway 337.

Every storm recorded in Chattooga 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
Summerville1.3 miles16
Berryton1.8 miles17
Perennial2.8 miles17
Fairview (historical)3.7 miles17
Pennville3.7 miles19
Broomtown (historical)4.9 miles24
Lyerly5.1 miles17
Chelsea5.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122560772The 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 333395. 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.