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White Path, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the North Gilmer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30540. It lies near Leading Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Cashes Valley quadrangle. It stands 1,493 feet above sea level.

White Path within Gilmer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of White Path between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,345 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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 burning60
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-GILMER-002
21 August 1999Recreation and ceremony1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-GILMER-004
26 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 June 2006Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 June 2007Natural4.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilmer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of White Path: 7 past producers, 7 prospects, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Manganese, Marble, Dimension. 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
Searcy PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1919
A.J.Pinson PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence
Davis ProspectsManganesePast Producer1919
Holt PropertyMarble, DimensionOccurrence
Lacey PropertyMarble, DimensionProspect
Searcy PropertyIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Whitaker PropertyMarble, DimensionProspect
HoltGoldProspectPlacer
Turkey PenGoldProspectPlacer
WhitakerGoldProspectPlacer

Every working recorded in Gilmer 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
Northcutt1.7 miles17
Cherry Log2.4 miles23
Goose Island2.5 miles23
Jones Mill (historical)2.5 miles23
Santaluca2.8 miles23
Turniptown (historical)2.9 miles17
Chopped Oak3.5 miles23
Lucius4.0 miles23

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.

Wikipedia article on White PathAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65052639The 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 333412. 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.