Hammond, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30328. The Survey maps it on the Chamblee quadrangle.

Hammond within Fulton County

On record in Hammond

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.

Glenridge Hall0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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
1954 USGS Chamblee quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Chamblee quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Hammond between 1993 and 2019, burning about 42 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	AKERS MILL
13 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	POWERSFERY
17 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	PALISADES
4 March 1994	Recreation and ceremony	1.2 acres	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	GOLDBRANCH
12 March 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 December 2016	Natural	3.0 acres	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	INDIAN TRAIL
25 December 1994	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	HO HO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Sandy Springs	0.6 miles	23
Ridgeview Forest	1.5 miles	21
Riverside	1.8 miles	23
Lake Island Estates	1.8 miles	23
Coldstream	2.0 miles	23
Glen Errol	2.1 miles	23
Forestdale Estates	2.4 miles	21
Misty Ridge	2.4 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1704914. 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.