Barch Estates, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30605. The Survey maps it on the Athens East quadrangle.

Barch Estates within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Athens East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1998 USGS Athens East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Barch Estates between 1992 and 2019, burning about 226 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 23 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 burning	44
Arson/incendiarism	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-OGLETHORPE-009
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-OCONEE-002
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-OCONEE-003
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke 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
Idylwood	0.6 miles	11
Hickory Point	1.0 miles	11
Shoal Creek Farms	1.1 miles	13
Waverly Woods	1.2 miles	13
Rock and Shoals	1.3 miles	13
Hunters Ridge	1.3 miles	13
Old Heritage Farm	1.4 miles	11
Barnett Bluffs	1.8 miles	11

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 Q122555491

The 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 1672653. 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.