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Worley Crossroads, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Ball Ground census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30143. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle.

Worley Crossroads within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

342 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 342 fires within 5 miles of Worley Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 708 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 118 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 burning150
Arson/incendiarism118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5

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
8 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHEROKEE-007
8 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-CHEROKEE-007
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Worley Crossroads: 6 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Iron, Beryllium, Iron, Manganese. 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
Denson MinesMica, BerylliumPast Producer
Richards PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence1919
Cherokee Iron MineIronPast Producer
S.C. Tate EstateIronPast ProducerResidual
A V Reeves ProspectMicaProspect
Allen Morton ProspectMicaProspect
Bennett MineMicaPast Producer
C C West ProspectsMicaProspect
Cagle MineMicaPast Producer
Davis MineMicaPast Producer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sharp Top1.5 miles22
Burris Crossroads3.6 miles22
Ball Ground5.4 miles22
Gober5.8 miles22
Waleska6.3 miles20
Keithsburg7.2 miles22
Beasley Gap7.4 miles20
Salacoa7.9 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122594535The 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 326599. 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.