Laurel Brook, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30327. The Survey maps it on the Sandy Springs quadrangle.

Laurel Brook within Fulton County

On record in Laurel Brook

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Fulton County Almshouselisted 2014 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

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
1955 USGS Sandy Springs quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Sandy Springs quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Sandy Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Laurel Brook between 1994 and 2019, burning about 9 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	1

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
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	AKERS MILL
17 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	POWERSFERY
17 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	PALISADES
29 December 2016	Natural	3.0 acres	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	INDIAN TRAIL
25 December 1994	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	HO HO
2 November 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	POWERS
2 October 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FULTON NORTH-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton 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
Seborn	0.1 miles	23
Montwicke	0.2 miles	23
Millbrook	0.4 miles	23
Powers Lane	0.5 miles	23
East Conway Hill	0.7 miles	23
Misty Ridge	0.7 miles	23
Glencastle Estates	0.9 miles	23
Idlewood Vally	1.2 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1694903. 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.