Wheeler, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Redbud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30734. It stands on Little Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oakman quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wheeler within Gordon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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.

1886 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Talking Rock quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1916 USGS Talking Rock quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Oakman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

283 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of Wheeler (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,195 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 106 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	115
Arson/incendiarism	106
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
8 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	CHICKEN CREEK
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-GORDON-015
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-GORDON-016

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon 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
Petersburg	2.1 miles	19
Oakman	2.1 miles	19
Buff (historical)	2.4 miles	18
Colima	2.8 miles	19
Coosawattee (historical)	2.8 miles	18
Audubon	3.8 miles	18
Redbud	4.4 miles	18
Fidelle	4.5 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334520. 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.