Brookwood, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Big Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30041. It stands on Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Duluth quadrangle.

Brookwood within Forsyth 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.

1890 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Suwanee quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Duluth quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Brookwood between 1992 and 2016, burning about 220 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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	47
Arson/incendiarism	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
9 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-FORSYTH-003
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	6.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Forsyth County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Brookwood: 5 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Magnesite, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mary Thomas Property	Magnesite	Past Producer
Unnamed Ocher Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
Collins	Gold	Prospect	Vein
Faver Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer
John Creek Placer	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer
Little Property	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Settles Property	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Forsyth 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
Big Creek	1.5 miles	21
Mars Hill Crossroads	4.4 miles	21
The Polo Fields	6.5 miles	21
Cumming	8.0 miles	21
Drew	8.1 miles	21
Pirkle Woods	9.2 miles	21
Dunn	10.2 miles	21
Ducktown	11.0 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331250. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.