Hi Roc Shores, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the North Rockdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30012. It stands on Carr Branch. The Survey maps it on the Milstead quadrangle.

Hi Roc Shores within Rockdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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 Milstead quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Milstead quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Milstead quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Hi Roc Shores between 1992 and 2020, burning about 646 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 59 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	70
Arson/incendiarism	59
Misuse of fire by a minor	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Recreation and ceremony	19
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Natural	12
Smoking	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-ROCKDALE-004
25 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Smoking	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockdale 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
Milstead	1.9 miles	20
Zingara	2.5 miles	20
Princeton (historical)	2.6 miles	20
Lakeview Estates	3.0 miles	21
Sardum (historical)	3.5 miles	22
Conyers	3.8 miles	21
Lake Capri	4.1 miles	21
McElroys Mill	4.5 miles	16

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 Q122543934

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 357551. 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.