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Forrest Park, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30310. It stands on Perkerson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southwest Atlanta quadrangle.

Forrest Park within Fulton County

On record in Forrest Park

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 7 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Forrest Park between 1992 and 2011, burning about 23 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
17 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-FULTON SOUTH-002
2 April 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 March 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-FULTON SOUTH-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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
Fort McPherson0.4 miles23
Sylvan Hills0.5 miles23
Knott (historical)0.9 miles23
Capitol View1.0 miles23
Cheney (historical)1.3 miles23
Adams Park1.7 miles23
East Point2.0 miles23
Cascade Heights2.3 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1705346. 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.