Forest Estates, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Fayetteville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30214. It stands on Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fayetteville quadrangle.

Forest Estates within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Fayetteville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Forest Estates between 1992 and 2018, burning about 157 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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	34
Arson/incendiarism	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	5
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
16 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FAYETTE-001
8 July 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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
Forest Hills	0.3 miles	10
Lakeview Estates	0.5 miles	10
Marilyn Acres	0.5 miles	10
Deep Forest	0.8 miles	10
Sharon Heights	0.8 miles	10
Brookcliff	0.8 miles	10
Ledgewood	1.1 miles	9
Winterthur Woods	1.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1687772. 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.