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Graystone North, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Snellville-Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30017. The Survey maps it on the Lawrenceville quadrangle.

Graystone North within Gwinnett County

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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Graystone North between 1992 and 2016, burning about 288 acres in total. 1 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/incendiarism39
Debris and open burning23
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
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
2 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1997Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-GWINNETT SOUTH-002
21 August 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-GWINNETT-005
20 August 1993Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1995Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pinehurst Trace0.4 miles18
Waterton0.6 miles18
Graystone0.7 miles18
Cotton Creek1.0 miles21
Fairfield Farms1.3 miles21
Falcon Ridge1.3 miles16
Saddle Club Estates1.7 miles16
Bridgewater2.0 miles21

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 Q122590096The 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 1688158. 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.