Cotton Indian Creek, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Stockbridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30281. It stands on Cane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stockbridge quadrangle.

Cotton Indian Creek within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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
1964 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Georgia DOT Bridge No. 151-00144-x-00055S, Spanning Little Cotton Indian Creek at Springdale Road (County Road 144), Stockbridge, Henry County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

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 Cotton Indian Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 431 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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	85
Misuse of fire by a minor	34
Arson/incendiarism	16
Smoking	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	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
6 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021HENRY001
17 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1993	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 Henry 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 Indian Creek: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Stockbridge Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Henry 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
Carriage Trace	0.3 miles	18
Country Roads	0.6 miles	18
Dove Rest	0.7 miles	18
Belair Woods	0.9 miles	18
Flintlook	0.9 miles	18
Springwood Valley	1.0 miles	18
Oakhill	1.0 miles	18
Stokes Crossing	1.2 miles	18

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 Q122594213

The 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 1671839. 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.