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Lakeside Hills, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Northeast Cobb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30144. It stands on Little Noonday Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kennesaw quadrangle.

Lakeside Hills within Cobb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Lakeside Hills between 1992 and 2016, burning about 490 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 58 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 burning59
Arson/incendiarism58
Misuse of fire by a minor43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking7
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHEROKEE-006
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Lakeside Hills: 9 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. 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
Bell-Star MineIron, ManganeseProspect1918
Evalee Richards ProspectZinc, Copper, LeadProspect
Kennesaw QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chalker MineMicaPast Producer
Delay ProspectMicaProspect
J V Ledford MineMicaPast Producer
M M Cole MineMicaPast Producer
Bell-StarGoldPast ProducerVein
CoxGoldPast ProducerVein
CoxGoldProspectVein

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
Lake Latimer0.5 miles23
Kings Crossing0.6 miles23
Falcon Hills1.0 miles23
Noonday1.2 miles23
Shallowford Forest1.2 miles23
Chestnut Hill1.6 miles23
Arden Lake1.6 miles23
Blackwell Chase1.8 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1685960. 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.