Fischers Crossroad, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Senoia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30277. It stands on Rock Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tyrone quadrangle.

Fischers Crossroad within Coweta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Tyrone quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

211 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Fischers Crossroad between 1992 and 2019, burning about 394 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 20 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	131
Arson/incendiarism	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Smoking	9
Natural	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-COWETA-003
11 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2006	Natural	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-COWETA-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coweta County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fischers Crossroad: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
A.J. Mcelwaney Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
J H Neely Place	Granite	Occurrence
Tyrone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Coweta 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
Shoal Creek Forest	1.0 miles	11
Rocky Shoals Estates	1.7 miles	11
Wood Valley Estates	2.3 miles	11
Circle H Estates	2.6 miles	9
Longstreet	2.7 miles	11
Creekwood	2.9 miles	11
Vineyard Crossroads	3.1 miles	11
Thomas Crossroads	3.6 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 Q122550598

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 348492. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.