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Cedar Creek, Georgia

17 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 30014. It stands on Wrights Creek. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle.

Cedar Creek within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

298 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 481 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 44 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 burning130
Arson/incendiarism44
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking18
Recreation and ceremony15
Natural14
Railroad operations and maintenance8

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
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
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

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 Cedar Creek: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
No NameGoldPast ProducerVein

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
Woodfield0.5 miles17
Hidden Pines1.1 miles17
Anderson Acres1.3 miles17
Starrsville1.9 miles17
Twin Oaks2.0 miles18
High Point2.1 miles17
Highpoint Forest2.3 miles17
Jamestown2.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673440. 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.