Country Lake, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Powder Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30127. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lost Mountain quadrangle.

Country Lake within Cobb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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 Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Lost Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Lost Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Country Lake between 1993 and 2009, burning about 82 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
16 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 1995	Natural	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park	90109
6 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.6 acres	Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park	JUDGE'S ROW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb 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
Macland	1.7 miles	17
Quails Nest	1.7 miles	19
Sherwood Estates	2.0 miles	19
Wynford Chase	2.1 miles	17
Milford	2.5 miles	20
Cherokee Trail	2.5 miles	19
McEachern Woods	3.1 miles	17
Powder Springs	3.1 miles	20

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 Q122558459

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 1685895. 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.