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Fort Hill Homes, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30060. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle.

Fort Hill Homes within Cobb County

On record in Fort Hill Homes

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 10 records

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 20 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Fort Hill Homes between 1992 and 2017, burning about 72 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
22 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKennesaw Mountain National Battlefield ParkFIRE2
13 July 2009Naturalunder an acreKennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park90109
6 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.6 acresKennesaw Mountain National Battlefield ParkJUDGE'S ROW
25 June 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKennesaw Mountain National Battlefield ParkISLANDFIRE
2 May 1992Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 April 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fort Hill Homes: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
Kramper PropertySulfurPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cobb 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
Marietta0.4 miles20
Clay Homes0.4 miles20
Marietta Place Homes (historical)1.0 miles20
Elizabeth1.5 miles20
Whitlock1.6 miles20
Oakton1.8 miles20
Westoak2.4 miles20
Fair Oaks2.6 miles20

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 Q122570029The 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 1686157. 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.