Country Square, Georgia

22 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 30078. It stands on Watson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Snellville quadrangle.

Country Square within Gwinnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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
1956 USGS Snellville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Snellville quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Snellville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Country Square between 1992 and 2013, burning about 258 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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	35
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GWINNETT-005
2 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	6.5 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
16 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Rivermist	1.2 miles	22
Brookwood Manor	1.3 miles	21
Five Forks	1.4 miles	21
Williams Place	1.4 miles	22
Rainbow Estates	1.5 miles	22
Yellow River (historical)	1.7 miles	22
River Oak	1.7 miles	21
Snellville	1.9 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1688089. 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.