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Cross Creek Estates, 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 Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lost Mountain quadrangle.

Cross Creek Estates 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.

Fires near this place

288 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 288 fires within 5 miles of Cross Creek Estates between 1992 and 2019, burning about 392 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 80 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 burning146
Arson/incendiarism80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony4
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
9 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-PAULDING-014
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019PAULDING002
4 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Cross Creek Estates: 5 prospects, 4 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur, Iron-Pyrite, Mica, Gold. 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
Berg ProspectIron-Pyrite, CopperOccurrencePyrite
Coggins and Smith ProspectIron-Pyrite, Sulfur, ZincOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Little Bob MineCopper, Sulfur, ZincPast Producer
D. Ragsdale ProspectIron-PyriteOccurrenceMassive Sulfide
Dean MineMicaPast Producer
Dr. Parker's PropertyGoldPast Producer
Mason MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Petty ProspectMicaProspect
Don Watson ProspectSulfurProspect
Jack Moon Heirs ProspectSulfurProspect

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
McEachern Woods1.5 miles17
Macland2.2 miles17
Powder Springs Chase2.5 miles20
West Springs2.9 miles20
Powder Springs3.0 miles20
Lost Mountain3.1 miles17
Paris Manor3.3 miles20
Steeplechase3.5 miles20

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 Q122589762The 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 1685899. 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.