Hollis Heights, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairplay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30135. It stands on Cardinal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rico quadrangle.

Hollis Heights within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1891 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rico quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Villa Rica quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Hollis Heights between 1992 and 2019, burning about 684 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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	20
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	2
Natural	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
18 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 1996	Arson/incendiarism	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 1993	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-DOUGLAS-002
6 June 1993	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 June 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 2012	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CARROLL-017
26 June 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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
Fairplay	1.0 miles	17
McWhorter	1.0 miles	17
Cheviot Hills	1.1 miles	17
Tyree	1.3 miles	16
River West	1.4 miles	17
Hannah	1.7 miles	17
Sweetwater Bluff	1.8 miles	17
Links of Leith	1.8 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 Q122572285

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 1686567. 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.