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Alpharetta Woods, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Roswell-Alpharetta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30004. The Survey maps it on the Birmingham quadrangle.

Alpharetta Woods within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Alpharetta Woods between 1992 and 2016, burning about 168 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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 burning60
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Smoking2

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
13 September 1998Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-CHEROKEE-003
31 August 1993Misuse of fire by a minor8.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1995Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1995Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 2008Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-FORSYTH-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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 Alpharetta Woods: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Magnesite, Gold. 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
Mary Thomas PropertyMagnesitePast Producer
W.T. Fowler PlacerGoldPast ProducerVein
Waltz & Bates MinesMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fulton 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
Bentgrass Farms0.4 miles19
Hopewell0.7 miles19
Laurel Grove1.1 miles19
Birmingham Road Estates1.1 miles19
North Valley1.5 miles19
Henderson Heights1.6 miles19
Country Ridge1.6 miles19
Five Acres Estates2.0 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 Q122594757The 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 1694739. 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.