Bridger Point, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Peachtree City-Tyrone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30215. It stands on Pelham Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tyrone quadrangle.

Bridger Point within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Tyrone quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Bridger Point between 1992 and 2016, burning about 166 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
16 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FAYETTE-001
25 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 July 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-FAYETTE-001
14 June 2011	Natural	4.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-FAYETTE-004

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
Rolling Meadows Estates	1.3 miles	10
Coventry Estates	1.4 miles	10
Gregory Estates	1.8 miles	10
Groveland	2.1 miles	9
Heritage Farms	2.2 miles	9
Creekside Crossing Estates	2.2 miles	9
Camp Creek Estates	2.2 miles	9
Robinson Wood Estates	2.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1687683. 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.