Knights Landing, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Covington-Porterdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30016. It stands on Buck Branch. The Survey maps it on the Porterdale quadrangle.

Knights Landing within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Porterdale quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

379 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 379 fires within 5 miles of Knights Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 568 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 54 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	156
Misuse of fire by a minor	60
Arson/incendiarism	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Smoking	21
Recreation and ceremony	20
Natural	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	5

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 1996	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020NEWTON001
4 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-NEWTON-002
30 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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 Knights Landing: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
	No Name	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Newton 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
Rogers Heights	0.5 miles	18
Forest Mill	0.7 miles	18
Fox Meadows	0.8 miles	18
Country Terrace	0.9 miles	18
Lakeside	1.0 miles	18
Brown Bridge Square	1.2 miles	18
River North	1.3 miles	18
Country Wood	1.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673513. 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.