Blakely Woods, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Fayetteville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30214. The Survey maps it on the Fayetteville quadrangle.

Blakely Woods within Fayette County

On record in Blakely Woods

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Railroad Street Historic Districtlisted 2026 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Blakely Woods between 1992 and 2019, burning about 161 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 27 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	33
Arson/incendiarism	27
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Smoking	4
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	8.6 acres	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
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
3 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 July 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CLAYTON001

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
Fenwyck	0.7 miles	10
Ponderosa	0.8 miles	10
Greenlea	1.0 miles	10
Huntington Creek	1.0 miles	10
Cottonwood	1.1 miles	10
Deer Glen Forest	1.2 miles	10
Fayetteville	1.3 miles	10
Wellington Manor	1.5 miles	10

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 Q122558511

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 1687675. 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.