Habersham Hills, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Dacula-Rocky Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30519. It stands on Little Ivy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hog Mountain quadrangle.

Habersham Hills within Gwinnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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 Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hog Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Hog Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Habersham Hills between 1992 and 2018, burning about 323 acres in total. None started naturally. 41 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	41
Debris and open burning	26
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2

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
30 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1998	Debris and open burning	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1992	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
6 July 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Whitlock Farms	1.3 miles	20
Pine Ridge Point	1.4 miles	15
Somerset Hills	1.6 miles	15
The Circles	2.0 miles	15
Pine Ridge Country Club Estates	2.1 miles	20
Woodhaven Downs	2.1 miles	15
Gravel Springs	2.2 miles	15
Ridgewood	2.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1688178. 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.