Westward Ho, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Paulding census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30132. It stands on Bone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dallas quadrangle.

Westward Ho within Paulding County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1891 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1973 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

507 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 507 fires within 5 miles of Westward Ho between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,246 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 164 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	227
Arson/incendiarism	164
Misuse of fire by a minor	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Railroad operations and maintenance	18
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	5
Natural	5

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
9 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-PAULDING-014
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	6.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Paulding County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Westward Ho: 11 prospects, 7 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfur, Iron-Pyrite, Zinc, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Berg Prospect	Iron-Pyrite, Copper	Occurrence	Pyrite
Coggins and Smith Prospect	Iron-Pyrite, Sulfur, Zinc	Occurrence	Massive Sulfide
Gamel Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Little Bob Mine	Copper, Iron-Pyrite, Zinc, Nickel, Cobalt	Past Producer	1860, 1920
Turner Prospect	Mica, Feldspar	Prospect
Poole Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Shirley Mine	Iron-Pyrite, Zinc	Occurrence	Massive Sulfide
Berg Prospect	Sulfur	Prospect
Henry Winn Mine	Sulfur	Past Producer
Jack Moon Heirs Prospect	Sulfur	Prospect

Every working recorded in Paulding 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
Beverly Estates	1.1 miles	17
Acorn Tree	1.2 miles	17
Wood Valley	1.2 miles	17
Brookwood	1.2 miles	17
New Hope	1.3 miles	17
Country Acres	1.4 miles	17
Forrister	1.4 miles	17
White Forest	1.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 349968. 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.