Iron Gate, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Jonesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30238. It stands on Castor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hampton quadrangle.

Iron Gate within Clayton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Hampton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1999 USGS Hampton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Iron Gate between 1992 and 2019, burning about 330 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 38 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/incendiarism	38
Misuse of fire by a minor	33
Debris and open burning	26
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	8.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1993	Debris and open burning	6.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Smoking	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CLAYTON-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Walnut Creek	0.2 miles	11
Irondale	0.5 miles	11
Orrs	0.9 miles	11
Bonanza	1.1 miles	11
Willow Bend	1.3 miles	11
The Springs	1.4 miles	11
Lake Chase	1.6 miles	11
Mundys Mill	2.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672481. 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.