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Chestnutfield, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Peachtree City-Tyrone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30269. The Survey maps it on the Tyrone quadrangle.

Chestnutfield within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Chestnutfield between 1992 and 2019, burning about 223 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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 burning41
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020COWETA004
8 August 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-COWETA-003
7 August 2006Natural1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2002Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FAYETTE-002
17 August 1995Natural1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2016Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FAYETTE-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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 Chestnutfield: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
Porter ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Fayette 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
Wickerhill0.2 miles9
Treillage0.2 miles9
Tapestry0.2 miles9
Burnham Woods0.3 miles9
Everhill0.3 miles9
The Summit0.4 miles9
Rockspray0.4 miles9
Wedgewood0.4 miles9

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 Q122567306The 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 1687706. 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.