Cotton Creek, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Snellville-Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30045. The Survey maps it on the Luxomni quadrangle.

Cotton Creek within Gwinnett County

On record in Cotton Creek

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Robert Craig Plantationlisted 1990 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1888 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Luxomni quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Luxomni quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Luxomni quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Cotton Creek between 1992 and 2017, burning about 293 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 42 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/incendiarism	42
Debris and open burning	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
2 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1992	Arson/incendiarism	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-GWINNETT SOUTH-002
21 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GWINNETT-005
20 August 1993	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gwinnett 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 Cotton Creek: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dixie Blue Quarry	Granite	Producer

Every working recorded in Gwinnett 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
Fairfield Farms	0.6 miles	21
Graystone North	1.0 miles	18
Waterton	1.3 miles	18
Pinehurst Trace	1.4 miles	18
Bridgewater	1.5 miles	21
Graystone	1.6 miles	18
Timbercrest	1.6 miles	18
Bristol Downs	1.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1688086. 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.