Loch Arbor, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Flowery Branch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30542. It stands on Flowery Branch. The Survey maps it on the Flowery Branch quadrangle.

Loch Arbor within Hall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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 Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Flowery Branch quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Flowery Branch quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Loch Arbor between 1992 and 2019, burning about 391 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 52 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	88
Arson/incendiarism	52
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	6

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
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HALL-003
5 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HALL003
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	6.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HALL-005
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-HALL-002
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hall County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Loch Arbor: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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
Friendship Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Banks Property	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Muddy Creek Prospect	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Vickers Prospect	Gold	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Hall 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
Trudy Estates	0.6 miles	16
Hammer	0.9 miles	16
Green Meadows	1.2 miles	16
Flowery Branch	1.5 miles	16
Wayne	1.6 miles	16
Scotts Cove	1.6 miles	16
Olde Federal Pointe	1.7 miles	16
Woodbridge	1.9 miles	16

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 Q122542178

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 1686991. 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.