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Chapel Heights Estates, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Carrollton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30116. The Survey maps it on the Carrollton quadrangle.

Chapel Heights Estates within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

185 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Chapel Heights Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 562 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 46 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 burning82
Arson/incendiarism46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CARROLL-006
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CARROLL-007
17 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Chapel Heights Estates: 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper. 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
(Facility) Carrollton Copper SmelterCopperPlant
Bonner MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Stacy MineGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Carroll 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
South Gate0.5 miles16
Cedarwood1.3 miles16
Oak Grove1.6 miles16
Briarwood Estates2.3 miles16
Colonial Estates2.5 miles16
Carrollton2.5 miles16
Fairlawn Estates2.6 miles16
Oak Mountain2.9 miles16

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 Q122570814The 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 350107. 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.