Brownwood, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Atlanta-Decatur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30316. It lies near Leggetts Hill (historic). The Survey maps it on the Southeast Atlanta quadrangle.

Brownwood within DeKalb County

On record in Brownwood

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 2 records

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

Zuber-Jarrell Houselisted 1997 · 0.4 miles away
East Atlanta Historic Districtlisted 2021 · 0.5 miles away

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
1954 USGS Conley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Southeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Southeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Brownwood between 1993 and 2006, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
10 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 May 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 April 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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
East Atlanta	0.3 miles	21
Eastland Heights	1.4 miles	21
South Kirkwood	1.6 miles	21
Edgewood	1.8 miles	21
Kirkwood	1.8 miles	21
Clifton	1.9 miles	21
North Kirkwood	2.0 miles	21
East Lake	2.4 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1705376. 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.