Laurelwood Estates, Georgia

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Chattanooga Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30741. It stands on Powder Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle.

Laurelwood Estates within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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.

1886 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Catoosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1892 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1936 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

329 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 329 fires within 5 miles of Laurelwood Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,184 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 109 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	160
Arson/incendiarism	109
Recreation and ceremony	14
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-WALKER-016
5 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-WALKER-014
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park	HAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Laurelwood Estates: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dave L Brown Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rossville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hall Ore Bank Area	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
High Point Area	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
J.T. Algoods Property	Iron	Past Producer
Mcfarland Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Stoner-Caldwell Property	Iron	Past Producer
High Point Area		Past Producer

Every working recorded in Walker 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
Wallaceville	0.6 miles	28
Mountain View	0.7 miles	28
Green Hills	1.0 miles	28
Cenchat	1.2 miles	28
Shadynook	1.5 miles	28
Valley View	1.9 miles	28
Robertsville	2.1 miles	28
Happy Valley	2.2 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 354095. 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.