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Collinsville, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Lithonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30058. It lies near Pine Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Conyers quadrangle.

Collinsville within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Collinsville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 476 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 58 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
Arson/incendiarism58
Debris and open burning38
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
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 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-DEKALB-001
25 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020ROCKDALE002
18 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DEKALB001
15 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Collinsville: 9 producers, 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Lawson Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vaughn DepositMicaOccurrence
Big Ledge QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lithonia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lithonia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Pine Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rock Chapel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Banks QuarryGranitePast Producer
Barber's QuarryGraniteProducer
Fowler's QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

4 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collinsville in 4 storm reports between 2020 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCollinsville$10,000Trees and power lines reported down at the intersection of Klondike Road and Rockland Road.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCollinsville-Emergency manager reports a tree down near the intersection of rock springs road and rock port drive.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindCollinsville-Report of tree down at intersection at Union Grove and Southern Grove Rd.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindCollinsville-Multiple trees down on Union Grove Rd near Southern Grove Rd.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Lithonia1.1 miles21
Pine Mountain2.3 miles21
Redan3.7 miles23
Rock Chapel3.9 miles22
Swift Creek3.9 miles22
Bramblewood3.9 miles23
Fairington4.0 miles23
Belmont4.4 miles23

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.

Wikipedia article on CollinsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888688The 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 331438. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.