Elk Ridge, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mansfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30014. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle.

Elk Ridge within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

251 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Elk Ridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 541 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 30 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	108
Arson/incendiarism	30
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Natural	16
Smoking	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Recreation and ceremony	8

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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-NEWTON-003
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-NEWTON-003
19 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1993	Smoking	6.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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
Ridgeway	0.8 miles	17
Riverbend	1.1 miles	17
Deerfield	1.1 miles	17
Fairfield	1.3 miles	17
Newton Ridge	1.3 miles	17
Beacon Hill	1.5 miles	17
East Wood	1.7 miles	17
Hidden Forest	1.7 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673464. 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.