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Cedar Trace, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Newnan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30263. The Survey maps it on the Newnan South quadrangle.

Cedar Trace within Coweta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

290 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Trace between 1992 and 2019, burning about 823 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 34 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 burning184
Arson/incendiarism34
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking9
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
8 September 2012Natural1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-COWETA-005
29 September 1993Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020COWETA006
18 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020COWETA005
15 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020COWETA003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coweta 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 Trace: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite. 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
Sam Hill QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Coweta 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
Woodsmoke0.7 miles10
Pine Hills2.1 miles10
Smokey Acres2.4 miles10
Stephens Crossroad2.4 miles10
Cureton Springs (historical)2.6 miles10
Dresden3.3 miles9
Lynhaven3.5 miles10
Wedgewood3.6 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122595991The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350799. 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.