Links of Leith, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairplay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30187. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rico quadrangle.

Links of Leith within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1891 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rico quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Villa Rica quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Links of Leith between 1992 and 2019, burning about 772 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 29 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	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	3
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2019	Natural	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CARROLL004
13 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CARROLL-005
1 September 1993	Debris and open burning	3.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1999	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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
Hannah	0.2 miles	17
Saint Andrews Country Club Estates	0.2 miles	17
Cheviot Hills	0.9 miles	17
Hollis Heights	1.8 miles	17
Tyree	2.2 miles	16
River West	2.2 miles	17
McWhorter	2.5 miles	17
Basket Creek	2.5 miles	17

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 Q122540821

The 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 1686570. 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.