BlockBefore

Yarbroughs Mill, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairmount census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30139. It stands on Little Pine Log Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sonoraville quadrangle.

Yarbroughs Mill within Gordon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Yarbroughs Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 949 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 64 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 burning119
Arson/incendiarism64
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism8.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-GORDON-001
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GORDON-002
5 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2003Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Yarbroughs Mill: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Funkhouser Co QuarryClayPast Producer
Aggregate QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
L.P. Byrd PropertyIronPast Producer
P M Tate MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Iron DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Gordon 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
Bowls (historical)1.9 miles19
Sonoraville2.3 miles19
Fairmount4.0 miles19
Farmville4.0 miles19
Fambro (historical)4.3 miles19
Big Spring (historical)4.6 miles19
Cash4.9 miles19
Igo (historical)5.2 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 Q122561779The 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 356654. 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.