Cross Creek, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Fayetteville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30215. It stands on Gay Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fayetteville quadrangle.

Cross Creek within Fayette County

On record in Cross Creek

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Reuben Gay Placelisted 2022 · 0.4 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Fayetteville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Cross Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 305 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 15 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	32
Arson/incendiarism	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	36 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	9.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1995	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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
Huntington South	0.5 miles	10
Windsor Estates	0.7 miles	10
Tunis Trace	1.0 miles	10
Inman	1.2 miles	10
Keyland Woods	1.3 miles	10
Calebs Meadows	1.3 miles	10
Harp	1.5 miles	10
Chanticleer	1.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1687721. 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.