Homestead, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Forest Park-Morrow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30273. It stands on Sweetgum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jonesboro quadrangle.

Homestead within Clayton County

On record in Homestead

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.

Rex Milllisted 1979 · 0.4 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 Jonesboro quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Homestead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 334 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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	59
Misuse of fire by a minor	25
Arson/incendiarism	19
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CLAYTON-002
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CLAYTON-001
6 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021HENRY001
17 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Homestead: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Stockbridge Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton 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
Foxfield	0.4 miles	21
Rex	0.4 miles	21
Ambleside	0.5 miles	21
Meadowview Acres	0.6 miles	21
Katherine Valley	0.8 miles	21
Woodlawn Acres	0.9 miles	21
Stagecoach Manor	1.1 miles	21
Amber Wood Estates	1.5 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672475. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.