Buchanan, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Chamblee-Doraville census division. The Survey maps it on the Chamblee quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Buchanan within DeKalb 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.

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 Chamblee quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Chamblee quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

31 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Buchanan (historical) between 1992 and 2005, burning about 99 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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	15
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
15 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 May 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	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
Cambridge Square	0.4 miles	21
Doraville	1.6 miles	21
Four Oaks	1.9 miles	21
DeKalb Highlands	2.1 miles	21
Happy Hollow	2.1 miles	21
Huntley Hill	2.2 miles	21
Sara Lake Estates	2.3 miles	21
Chestnut Forest	2.4 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1704715. 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.