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Cowan Mill Estates, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bill Arp census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30135. The Survey maps it on the Winston quadrangle.

Cowan Mill Estates within Douglas 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.

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Cowan Mill Estates between 1992 and 2019, burning about 352 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 43 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/incendiarism43
Debris and open burning39
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-DOUGLAS-001
24 August 2007Natural5.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1993Arson/incendiarism3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1995Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2006Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 1995Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 Cowan Mill Estates: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Douglasville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Blain Woods0.3 miles17
Audubon Forest0.3 miles17
Executive Heights0.4 miles17
Gregory Heights0.5 miles17
Sherrian Estates0.6 miles17
Twin Pine Estates0.6 miles17
Coronado Forest0.7 miles17
Bright Star1.0 miles17

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 Q122566144The 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 1686456. 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.