Gloster, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Lawrenceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30044. It stands on Pew Creek. The Survey maps it on the Luxomni quadrangle.

Gloster within Gwinnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1888 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Luxomni quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Luxomni quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Luxomni quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Gloster between 1992 and 2017, burning about 205 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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	39
Debris and open burning	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	14 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
4 July 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gwinnett County

Storms near this place

15 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gloster in 15 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2010	Lightning	Gloster	$150,000	The Gwinnett County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a two-story wood frame home on Mill Bend Drive in Lawrenceville. Firefighters found the attic and a bedroom on fire when they arrived.
August 2010	Lightning	Gloster	$100,000	The Gwinnett Daily Post reported that lightning struck the chimney of a home on Congress Parkway in Lawrenceville. The chimney suffered moderate damage and a subsequent fire caused damage to the first and second floors of the home, mostly from smoke.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloster	$50,000	The local broadcast media reported several trees blown down in the Lawrenceville area. One tree fell onto a house on Garden Grove Drive causing extensive damage and another fell onto a house on Sydney Pond Circle causing a hole in the roof. No injuries were reported at either location.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloster	$50,000	WSB Television of Atlanta reported at least seven trees were down in the Lawrenceville and Grayson areas as a small, yet intense, thunderstorm moved through that area. A home on Oak Ridge Way in Lawrenceville suffered extensive damage when a tree fell on the structure. At least six trees were down in the vicinity of Birch Lane in Lawrenceville.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloster	$30,000	The Gwinnett County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down across the north and west side of Lawrenceville. Several trees fell onto a home and vehicles on Stone Forest Drive near Tyler Trace. No injuries were reported.
September 2009	Lightning	Gloster	$25,000	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that lightning struck a home in the 2700 block of Maple Vista Lane. The resulting fire caused minor damage to the structure.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloster	$15,000	The Gwinnett County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down on a house on Canterbury Court. No injuries were reported.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloster	$10,000	An amateur radio operator reported trees and power lines blown down on Bethesda Church Road north of the Ronald Reagan Parkway.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloster	$4,000	The public reported several trees blown down from Five Forks Trickum Road to Moon Place Road.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloster	$3,000	The Gwinnett County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down in a yard of a home on Hidden Lake Drive. The tree brought down power lines, damaging the siding of the house where the power line entered the house.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloster	$1,000	Tree down on roadway at Old Norcross Road and Oakland Road.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloster	$1,000	The Gwinnett County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down near the intersection of Castle Drive and Gloster Road.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Gloster	-	Report of tree on building near intersection of Lawrenceville Hwy and Amberwood Dr NW.
April 2021	Hail	Gloster	-	The public reported hail the size of quarters at Emerald Forest Circle SW and Five Forks Trickum Road SW.
May 2003	Hail	Gloster	-	The public reported quarter-sized hail.

Every storm 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
Ansley Brook	0.5 miles	21
Coopers Pond	0.6 miles	21
River Bridge	0.7 miles	21
Sweet Water	1.1 miles	21
Cricket Hill	1.1 miles	21
Bethesda	1.3 miles	21
Emerald Forest	1.3 miles	21
River Oak	1.5 miles	21

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.

Wikipedia article on Gloster	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60767447	The 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 331822. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.