Elton Estates, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30342. The Survey maps it on the Chamblee quadrangle.

Elton Estates within Fulton 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 Chamblee quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Chamblee quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Elton Estates between 1993 and 2019, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	AKERS MILL
15 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	POWERSFERY
17 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	PALISADES
9 March 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 March 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 December 2016	Natural	3.0 acres	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	INDIAN TRAIL
25 December 1994	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	HO HO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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
Highpoint Forest	0.3 miles	21
Windsor at Peachtree	0.4 miles	21
Berwicke	0.5 miles	21
Windsor Heights	0.5 miles	21
Crestwicke	0.5 miles	21
Forestdale Estates	0.5 miles	21
Forest Valley	0.5 miles	21
Starlight Hills	0.5 miles	21

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 Q122591371

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 1694808. 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.