Ashley Park, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Fayetteville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30214. The Survey maps it on the Riverdale quadrangle.

Ashley Park within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1888 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Riverdale quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Riverdale quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Ashley Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 218 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 36 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/incendiarism	36
Debris and open burning	32
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	3
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FAYETTE001
29 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FAYETTE-001
16 August 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-FAYETTE-002
8 July 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hidden Acres of Fayette	0.5 miles	21
Franklin Farms	0.5 miles	21
Oak Hills	0.6 miles	10
Bethesda Woods South	0.8 miles	21
Graves Way	0.9 miles	21
Hopeful	1.2 miles	21
Bentbrook Farms	1.2 miles	21
Fayette Acres	1.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1687662. 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.