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Yacht Club Estates, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Woodstock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30102. The Survey maps it on the Acworth quadrangle.

Yacht Club Estates within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

310 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 310 fires within 5 miles of Yacht Club Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,005 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 135 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
Arson/incendiarism135
Debris and open burning88
Misuse of fire by a minor41
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking5
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
9 September 1993Debris and open burning29 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHEROKEE-006
4 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BARTOW-008
29 September 1993Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BARTOW-018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 58 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 58 workings within 5 miles of Yacht Club Estates: 24 past producers, 19 occurrences, 14 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Barium-Barite, 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
AllatoonaTitaniumOccurrence
Evalee Richards ProspectZinc, Copper, LeadProspect
Lot 826ManganesePast Producer1892
Allatoona VeinGold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Avery MineGold, SilverProspectVein
Bell-Star MineIron, ManganeseProspect1918
Iron Hill MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Iron Hill MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Lots 828, 829, and 830Iron, ManganeseUnknown1954
Bartow Furnace MineIronPast 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
Payne0.4 miles24
Old Cedar Creek0.6 miles24
Twin Pines0.6 miles24
Etowah Mills0.9 miles24
McCollum Acres1.0 miles24
Cedar Mill Crossing1.0 miles24
Vestavia Estates1.5 miles24
Hills-A-Rolling1.5 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1686414. 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.