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Lake Capri, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Conyers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30012. It stands on Shipley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Conyers quadrangle.

Lake Capri within Rockdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

210 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Lake Capri between 1992 and 2019, burning about 558 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 70 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/incendiarism70
Debris and open burning47
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural4
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
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-ROCKDALE-004
4 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2001Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-DEKALB-001
25 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020ROCKDALE002
24 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockdale County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Lake Capri: 8 producers, 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica. 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
Lawson Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vaughn DepositMicaOccurrence
Big Ledge QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lithonia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lithonia QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Pine Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Rock Chapel QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Banks QuarryGranitePast Producer
Barber's QuarryGraniteProducer
Fowler's QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockdale 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
Lakeview Estates1.2 miles21
Sardum (historical)3.3 miles22
Milstead3.7 miles20
Conyers3.8 miles21
Hi Roc Shores4.1 miles20
Zingara4.7 miles20
McElroys Mill5.5 miles16
Orleans (historical)6.3 miles21

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 Q122563632The 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 357565. 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.