White City, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lathemtown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30115. The Survey maps it on the Canton quadrangle.

White City within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1890 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Canton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Canton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

257 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 257 fires within 5 miles of White City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 430 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 44 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	139
Arson/incendiarism	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Smoking	15
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Recreation and ceremony	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	4

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 1993	Smoking	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of White City: 12 past producers, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Iron-Pyrite, Mica. 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
Dickens Prospect	Copper, Iron-Pyrite	Past Producer	Massive Sulfide
Lawson & Quarles Sand	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cook Mine	Mica	Past Producer
G.I.Teasley Property	Iron	Occurrence
J T Haley Mine	Mica	Past Producer
James M.Quarles Property	Iron	Occurrence
Smith Prospect	Iron-Pyrite	Occurrence	Vein
Burty No. 2	Gold	Prospect	Vein
F. Burt's	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Frank Burt Prospect	Gold	Prospect

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Macedonia	0.9 miles	21
Harmony	1.6 miles	20
Orange	1.9 miles	21
Buffington	2.4 miles	20
Carmichael Crossroads	2.8 miles	20
Lathemtown	3.7 miles	19
Union Hill	3.8 miles	20
Gober	4.2 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326588. 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.