Glen Ridge, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bill Arp census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30187. It stands on Pool Creek. The Survey maps it on the Winston quadrangle.

Glen Ridge within Douglas 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.

1891 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Villa Rica quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1973 USGS Winston quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Glen Ridge between 1992 and 2019, burning about 641 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 36 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	55
Arson/incendiarism	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	3

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
26 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	18 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2007	Natural	5.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-DOUGLAS-001
20 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Glen Ridge: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Iron-Pyrite, Gold, Copper, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Circle P Ranch Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Douglasville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Keaten-Thomas Prospect	Iron-Pyrite, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Gossan
Keaton-Thomas Prospect	Sulfur	Prospect
No Name	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
No Name, Lot 77 2nd Dist.	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Imperial Estates	0.6 miles	17
Laurel Heights	0.8 miles	17
White Oak Estates	0.9 miles	17
West Lake	1.0 miles	17
Aberdeen Estates	1.2 miles	17
Johnson Land	1.3 miles	17
Aline Estates	1.3 miles	17
Seminole Valley	1.4 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1686488. 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.