Barrow Heights, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Winder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30680. The Survey maps it on the Winder South quadrangle. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Barrow Heights within Barrow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Winder South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Barrow Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 325 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 33 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	66
Arson/incendiarism	33
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	6

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 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2008	Natural	3.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barrow 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
Winder	1.3 miles	17
Whistleville	2.1 miles	18
Cedar Hill	2.4 miles	15
Russell	2.5 miles	17
Carl	3.7 miles	15
Mulberry	3.9 miles	15
Bethlehem	4.4 miles	17
Auburn	4.7 miles	15

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.

Wikipedia article on Barrow Heights	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28950246	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 331099. 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.