Green Springs, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Palmetto census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30268. The Survey maps it on the Palmetto quadrangle.

Green Springs within Fulton County

On record in Green Springs

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 1 record

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

Levi Ballard Houselisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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
1954 USGS Palmetto quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Green Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 857 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 40 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	111
Arson/incendiarism	40
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-FULTON SOUTH-003
20 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019FULTON SOUTH001
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-COWETA-001
12 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-FAYETTE-001
3 August 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Debris and open burning	24 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-COWETA-004
17 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Green Springs: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Tyrone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Wilson Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Palmetto	0.8 miles	16
Carlton Woods	1.4 miles	16
Bear Creek Estates	2.7 miles	16
Goodes	4.1 miles	16
Rosegate Manor	4.7 miles	19
Gledstone Hills	4.9 miles	19
Fairburn	5.1 miles	19
Shannon Chase	5.5 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1704524. 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.