North Highlands, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Macon East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31211. It stands on Vineville Branch. The Survey maps it on the Macon West quadrangle.

North Highlands within Bibb County

On record in North Highlands

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 10 records

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

Shirley Hills Historic Districtlisted 1989 · 0.4 miles away
Rose Hill Cemeterylisted 1973 · 0.7 miles away
Riverside Cemeterylisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away
Shirley Hills Historic District (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation)listed 2014 · 0.9 miles away
DeWitt McCrary Houselisted 1974 · 0.9 miles away
Slate Houselisted 1974 · 0.9 miles away
North Highlands Historic Districtlisted 1993 · 0.1 miles away
Fort Hill Historic Districtlisted 1993 · 0.6 miles away
Macon Railway and Light Company Substationlisted 2006 · 0.8 miles away
East Macon Historic Districtlisted 1993 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1956 USGS Macon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Macon West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of North Highlands between 1992 and 2019, burning about 438 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 34 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	113
Arson/incendiarism	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Smoking	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Natural	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BIBB001
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1993	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JONES006
18 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of North Highlands: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fullers Earth. 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
Pikes Peak Fuller's Earth	Fullers Earth	Past Producer	Cristobalite, Opal, Montmorillonite
Burns Brick Co Mine	Clay	Producer
Cherokee Mine	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Bibb 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
Shirley Hills	0.4 miles	14
Highland Circle	0.9 miles	14
Heritage Acres	0.9 miles	14
Macon	1.0 miles	14
Highland Hills	1.2 miles	14
Wood Valley	1.2 miles	14
North Forest Hills	1.3 miles	14
Sunnydale Acres	1.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672237. 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.