Wier, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Dahlonega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30533. It stands on Poverty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nimblewill quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wier within Lumpkin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1888 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1911 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 4 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 Nimblewill quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Nimblewill quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Wier (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 642 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 69 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	133
Arson/incendiarism	69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Fireworks	2
Natural	1

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 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	TURNER CREEK
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	CHECK STATION
23 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020DAWSON001
8 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-DAWSON-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lumpkin 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
Nimblewill	3.0 miles	20
Burtsboro	5.8 miles	18
Jay (historical)	5.9 miles	21
Hedwig (historical)	6.9 miles	21
Buckhorn Tavern	7.4 miles	21
Etowah (historical)	7.6 miles	18
Auraria	8.9 miles	18
Cane Creek	9.2 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357222. 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.