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Woodfin Mill, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Milner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30257. It stands on Grape Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barnesville quadrangle.

Woodfin Mill within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

282 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Woodfin Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 764 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 46 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 burning167
Arson/incendiarism46
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural8
Smoking6

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
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-LAMAR-003
3 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-SPALDING-001
2 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2011Arson/incendiarism3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-LAMAR-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Woodfin Mill: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
Coggins ProspectMicaProspect
Doc Irwin ProspectMicaProspect
J W Brown DepositMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodfin Mill in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2016Thunderstorm WindWoodfin Mill$3,000The Lamar County 911 center reported trees blown down across the northern portion of the county from around Young Road to I-75 near mile marker 198.

Every storm recorded in Lamar 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
Five Points1.3 miles11
Milner1.9 miles10
Milner Crossroads3.6 miles10
Aldora5.0 miles10
Barnesville5.5 miles10
Liberty Hill5.9 miles11
Powell (historical)6.1 miles10
Revere (historical)6.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333459. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.