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Greenwood Acres, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Covington-Porterdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30054. The Survey maps it on the Jersey quadrangle.

Greenwood Acres within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

238 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood Acres between 1992 and 2019, burning about 444 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 16 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 burning106
Equipment and vehicle use28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking14
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance9

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
5 September 2002Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-NEWTON-007
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-NEWTON-003
23 September 2010Debris and open burning5.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-NEWTON-004
2 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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 Greenwood Acres: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Newton County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oxford QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Newton 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
Flint Hill0.6 miles17
Dialtown1.1 miles17
Airport Grove1.3 miles17
Meadow View1.4 miles17
Murphy Hills1.4 miles17
Stone Lea1.6 miles17
Essex Village1.7 miles17
Pine Top Hill2.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673492. 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.