Caleb, Georgia

22 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 30039. It stands on Do Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Snellville quadrangle.

Caleb within Gwinnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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
1956 USGS Snellville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Snellville quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Snellville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Caleb between 1992 and 2018, burning about 433 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 42 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	42
Debris and open burning	35
Recreation and ceremony	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	7

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
6 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-DEKALB-001
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-ROCKDALE-003
1 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-ROCKDALE-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gwinnett 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 Caleb: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Rock Chapel Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working 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
Innsbrook West	0.4 miles	22
Innsbrook	0.6 miles	22
Summer Place	1.2 miles	22
Lenora	1.5 miles	22
Norris Lake Shores	1.6 miles	22
Brandington Forest	1.7 miles	22
Lochwolde	1.8 miles	22
Laurel Creek	2.0 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326206. 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.