Deer Glen Forest, 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 30214. The Survey maps it on the Fayetteville quadrangle.

Deer Glen Forest within Fayette County

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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Deer Glen Forest between 1992 and 2019, burning about 229 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 38 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	38
Debris and open burning	37
Misuse of fire by a minor	28
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	8.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1993	Debris and open burning	6.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CLAYTON-004

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
Ponderosa	0.5 miles	10
Wellington Manor	0.8 miles	10
Huntington Creek	0.9 miles	10
Blakely Woods	1.2 miles	10
Cottonwood	1.7 miles	10
Fenwyck	1.8 miles	10
Greenlea	2.1 miles	10
Briarwood Park	2.3 miles	10

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 Q122566235

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 1687726. 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.