Cherokee Forest, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Winterville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30601. It stands on East Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hull quadrangle.

Cherokee Forest within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hull quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Cherokee Forest between 1992 and 2017, burning about 298 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 33 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 burning	57
Arson/incendiarism	33
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
18 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-MADISON-003
29 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-MADISON-002
29 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CLARKE-002
28 August 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CLARKE-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke 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 Cherokee Forest: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
	Athens Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	The Georgia Loan & Trust Co. Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clarke 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
Barretts Mill	0.4 miles	14
North Place	1.1 miles	15
Northridge Park	1.5 miles	15
Greenmont	1.6 miles	13
Wonderland Estates	1.9 miles	13
Rollingwood	2.3 miles	15
Country Club Estates	2.7 miles	15
Northridge	3.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672692. 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.