Eastland Heights, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Atlanta-Decatur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30316. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Atlanta quadrangle.

Eastland Heights within DeKalb County

On record in Eastland Heights

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.

East Atlanta Historic Districtlisted 2021 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 Conley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Southeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Southeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Eastland Heights between 1993 and 2006, burning about 91 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
10 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	4.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 May 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 May 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-FULTON SOUTH-002
16 April 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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
Gresham Park	1.4 miles	21
Brownwood	1.4 miles	21
East Atlanta	1.7 miles	21
Constitution	2.2 miles	21
South Kirkwood	2.3 miles	21
Whitehall Forest Estates	2.5 miles	21
Norton (historical)	2.6 miles	21
Kirkwood	2.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326257. 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.