Mount Carmel Estates, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Hampton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30228. The Survey maps it on the Hampton quadrangle.

Mount Carmel Estates within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Hampton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1999 USGS Hampton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Mount Carmel Estates between 1992 and 2018, burning about 526 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 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	75
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Arson/incendiarism	17
Smoking	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
28 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-HENRY-001
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HENRY-009
21 August 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Smoking	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mount Carmel Estates: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Madras Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Henry 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
Lake Cindy Estates	2.5 miles	11
Crystal Springs	2.7 miles	11
West Hampton	3.4 miles	11
Lake Talmadge	3.5 miles	11
Hampton	3.6 miles	11
Woodlawn	4.2 miles	11
Fortson	4.3 miles	11
Windhaven Plantation	4.5 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671940. 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.