Forest Hills, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Lawrenceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30046. The Survey maps it on the Lawrenceville quadrangle.

Forest Hills within Gwinnett County

On record in Forest Hills

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Old Seminary Buildinglisted 1970 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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 Lawrenceville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1992 USGS Lawrenceville quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Lawrenceville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Forest Hills between 1992 and 2017, burning about 284 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 42 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
Arson/incendiarism	42
Debris and open burning	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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 August 1992	Arson/incendiarism	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 1993	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gwinnett County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Forest Hills: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dixie Blue Quarry	Granite	Producer
	Galite #1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Gwinnett 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
Hanarry Estates	0.8 miles	21
Forest East	0.9 miles	18
Acadia Woods	0.9 miles	18
Sandlewood	1.0 miles	18
Stone Mill	1.1 miles	21
Regal Estates	1.1 miles	21
Oakdale Woods	1.2 miles	18
Lawrenceville	1.2 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331742. 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.