Cascade Heights, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30311. The Survey maps it on the Southwest Atlanta quadrangle.

Cascade Heights within Fulton County

On record in Cascade Heights

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 4 records

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

Memorial to the Six Millionlisted 2008 · 0.5 miles away
Utoy Cemeterylisted 2015 · 0.9 miles away
Cascade Heights Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2020 · 0.1 miles away
Charles R. Adams Parklisted 2021 · 0.5 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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 East Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Southwest Atlanta quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Southwest Atlanta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Southwest Atlanta quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Cascade Heights between 1992 and 2019, burning about 58 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	7
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
17 July 2019	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FULTON SOUTH001
5 May 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 May 1994	Arson/incendiarism	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 May 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-FULTON SOUTH-001
7 April 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 April 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 April 2013	Natural	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-FULTON SOUTH-013
23 April 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cascade Heights: 2 producers. 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
	Bellwood Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Ben Hill Div. Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Fulton 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
Adams Park	0.8 miles	23
West End Park	1.7 miles	23
Fort McPherson	1.9 miles	23
Forrest Park	2.3 miles	23
West End	2.3 miles	23
Stratford	2.4 miles	24
Battle Hill Haven	2.5 miles	24
Sylvan Hills	2.6 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331336. 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.