Country Terrace, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Covington-Porterdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30016. It stands on Caney Fork. The Survey maps it on the Porterdale quadrangle.

Country Terrace within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Porterdale quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

373 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 373 fires within 5 miles of Country Terrace between 1992 and 2019, burning about 586 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 52 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	150
Misuse of fire by a minor	60
Arson/incendiarism	52
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Smoking	20
Recreation and ceremony	18
Natural	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	4

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
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020NEWTON001
30 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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
Fox Meadows	0.4 miles	18
Forest Mill	0.5 miles	18
Buck Creek	0.8 miles	18
Knights Landing	0.9 miles	18
Woodland Acres	0.9 miles	18
Slades Mill	0.9 miles	18
Brown Bridge Square	1.0 miles	18
Country Wood	1.1 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 Q122557668

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 1673445. 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.