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North Kirkwood, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Atlanta-Decatur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30307. It lies near Leggetts Hill (historic). The Survey maps it on the Northeast Atlanta quadrangle.

North Kirkwood within DeKalb County

On record in North Kirkwood

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 6 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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.

Fires near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of North Kirkwood between 1993 and 2001, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
10 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 May 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 April 1999Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 March 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 March 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 March 1994Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 March 1994Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Clifton0.2 miles21
Kirkwood0.5 miles21
Edgewood0.7 miles21
South Kirkwood0.7 miles21
Oakhurst1.0 miles21
Druid Hills1.3 miles21
East Lake1.4 miles21
Chelsea Heights1.6 miles21

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 Q122566398The 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 332516. 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.