Knob, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Stockbridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30281. It stands on Mitchell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Stockbridge quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Knob within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

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
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Knob (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 393 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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	77
Arson/incendiarism	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3

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
23 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021HENRY001
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020ROCKDALE001
15 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1993	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 July 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 July 1993	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry 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
Hidden Lakes	0.9 miles	18
Martin Creek Country Estates	1.3 miles	18
Fairview Manor	1.3 miles	18
Hidden Valley	1.4 miles	18
Pinecrest	1.7 miles	18
Swan Lake	2.1 miles	18
Patillo Point	2.1 miles	18
Brookfield Woods	2.5 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1705021. 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.