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Idlewood Acres, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Tucker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30084. The Survey maps it on the Stone Mountain quadrangle.

Idlewood Acres within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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.

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Idlewood Acres between 1992 and 1999, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Oakengate0.6 miles24
Montreal0.7 miles24
Wilshire0.8 miles24
Hunters Glen1.4 miles24
Clarkston1.4 miles24
Brook Hollow1.7 miles24
Tucker2.0 miles24
Rehoboth2.1 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1687274. 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.