Brookwood Manor, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Snellville-Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30078. The Survey maps it on the Luxomni quadrangle.

Brookwood Manor within Gwinnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1888 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Luxomni quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Luxomni quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Luxomni quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Brookwood Manor between 1992 and 2013, burning about 242 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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
Arson/incendiarism	34
Debris and open burning	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-GWINNETT SOUTH-002
22 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GWINNETT-005
2 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gwinnett 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
Bridgewater	0.7 miles	21
Williams Place	0.9 miles	22
Country Square	1.3 miles	22
Emerald Forest	1.3 miles	21
Five Forks	1.4 miles	21
Fairfield Farms	1.6 miles	21
Flowers Crossing	1.7 miles	21
Snellville	1.8 miles	22

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 Q122555471

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 1688042. 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.