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Brown Bridge Square, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Covington-Porterdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30016. It stands on Caney Fork. The Survey maps it on the Porterdale quadrangle.

Brown Bridge Square within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

357 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 357 fires within 5 miles of Brown Bridge Square between 1992 and 2019, burning about 542 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 46 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 burning141
Misuse of fire by a minor57
Arson/incendiarism46
Equipment and vehicle use30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Smoking19
Recreation and ceremony17
Natural14
Railroad operations and maintenance6

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020NEWTON001
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-NEWTON-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brown Bridge Square: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Oxford QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Newton 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Fox Meadows0.6 miles18
Beaver Creek0.8 miles18
Village Green0.9 miles18
Country Terrace1.0 miles18
River North1.0 miles18
Knights Landing1.2 miles18
Woodland Acres1.2 miles18
Newton Woods1.3 miles18

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 Q122560248The 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 1673434. 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.