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Forrest Heights, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rome census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30147. It lies near Saddle Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Rome South quadrangle.

Forrest Heights within Floyd County

On record in Forrest Heights

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.

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.

Fires near this place

477 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 477 fires within 5 miles of Forrest Heights between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,476 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 157 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 burning199
Arson/incendiarism157
Equipment and vehicle use36
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Recreation and ceremony18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking13
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-FLOYD-018
4 September 2007Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FLOYD-016
29 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning8.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2014Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-FLOYD-005
27 September 2014Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-FLOYD-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Forrest Heights: 10 past producers, 7 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rome City Shale QuarryClayPast Producer
County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Floyd County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Johnson PropertyIronPast Producer
Washington BankIronPast ProducerResidual
Couper PropertyManganesePast ProducerResidual
Hillyer PropertyManganeseProspect1919
Lot 44ManganesePast Producer1901
Pattillo PropertyManganeseProspect1919
Cochran MineAluminumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Floyd 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gaither Park0.4 miles18
Saddle Mountain0.8 miles18
Rosemont Park0.9 miles18
Lindale1.0 miles18
Twickenham1.1 miles18
New Rome1.2 miles18
Atlanta Junction1.2 miles18
Nottingham Estates1.5 miles18

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 Q122597310The 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 353678. 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.