Hazelbrand 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 30014. It stands on Strouds Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jersey quadrangle.

Hazelbrand 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.

1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Jersey quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

213 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Hazelbrand Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 474 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 14 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	94
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Natural	18
Arson/incendiarism	14
Smoking	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	6

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
8 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-NEWTON-007
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-NEWTON-003
29 September 1993	Natural	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-NEWTON-003
20 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Alcovy	0.6 miles	17
River Cove	1.1 miles	17
Briarpatch	1.5 miles	17
East Wood	2.3 miles	17
Deerfield	2.5 miles	17
Pine Top Hill	2.5 miles	17
Beacon Hill	2.5 miles	17
Brentwood	2.6 miles	17

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 Q122565908

The 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 1673496. 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.