Drakes Landing, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Jonesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30236. It stands on Lowland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jonesboro quadrangle.

Drakes Landing within Clayton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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.

1888 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Drakes Landing between 1992 and 2016, burning about 345 acres in total. 3 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	44
Arson/incendiarism	43
Debris and open burning	31
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	5
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
6 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	8.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton 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
Emerald Hills	0.3 miles	21
Embrey Hills	0.6 miles	21
Kunuga Hills	0.7 miles	21
Thornton Estates	0.7 miles	21
Barcelona Estates	0.8 miles	21
Jarrard	1.1 miles	21
Jonesboro	1.1 miles	21
The Springs	1.3 miles	11

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 Q122564594

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 1672424. 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.