BlockEdwardsville, Georgia
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30324. It stands on South Fork Peachtree Creek. The Survey maps it on the Northeast Atlanta quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
On record in Edwardsville
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 4 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Peachtree Highlands-Peachtree Park Historic Districtlisted 2008 · 0.5 miles away
Garden Hills Historic Districtlisted 1987 · 0.9 miles away- Peachtree Highlands Historic Districtlisted 1986 · 0.7 miles away
- Paces Ferry Towerlisted 2023 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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 Decatur quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Northeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Northeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Northeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Edwardsville (historical) between 1993 and 2016, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 March 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 October 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-FULTON NORTH-001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peachtree Park (historical) | 0.8 miles | 21 | |
| Buckhead | 1.0 miles | 24 | |
| Powell (historical) | 1.1 miles | 21 | |
| Mayfair | 1.7 miles | 21 | |
| Piedmont Heights | 1.9 miles | 21 | |
| Lenox Park | 2.3 miles | 21 | |
| Brookwood Hills | 2.3 miles | 24 | |
| Morningside | 2.5 miles | 21 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1704907. 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.