Forest Hills, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Statesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30458. It stands on Granna Branch. The Survey maps it on the Statesboro quadrangle.

Forest Hills within Bulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1920 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

278 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Forest Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 997 acres in total. 11 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	181
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Arson/incendiarism	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	12
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	4
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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-BULLOCH-003
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021BULLOCH007
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BULLOCH-008
22 September 2004	Smoking	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BULLOCH-005
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bulloch 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
Hazelwood	0.2 miles	17
Country Squire	0.2 miles	17
Forest Heights	0.5 miles	17
Westbrooke	0.6 miles	17
Country Club Estates	0.7 miles	17
Pine Needle Hills	0.8 miles	17
Country Club Hills	0.9 miles	17
Pine Forest	0.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350350. 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.