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Kennesaw Acres, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Acworth-Kennesaw census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30152. It stands on John Henry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Acworth quadrangle.

Kennesaw Acres within Cobb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Kennesaw Acres between 1992 and 2019, burning about 328 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 51 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/incendiarism51
Debris and open burning41
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BARTOW-008
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2013Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-CHEROKEE-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Kennesaw Acres: 11 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chalker MineMicaPast Producer
Kennesaw QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
CoxGoldPast ProducerVein
Freeman MineGoldPast Producer
GarrisonGoldProspectPlacer
HamiltonGoldProspectPlacer
Hamilton MineGoldPast Producer
House MineGoldPast Producer
J. B. Kemp ProspectGoldPast Producer
J.B.Kemp's Property (Hathaway Property)GoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Cobb 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
Owens Meadows0.5 miles24
Shiloh West0.6 miles24
Country Creek0.6 miles24
Blue Springs0.7 miles24
Northwind0.7 miles24
Countryside Estates0.9 miles24
Calumet Woods0.9 miles24
Valley Hill Estates1.2 miles24

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 Q122540151The 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 1685950. 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.