Northlake, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Statesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30458. It stands on Belcher Branch. The Survey maps it on the Statesboro quadrangle.

Northlake within Bulloch 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.

1920 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Northlake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 685 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 18 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	203
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Arson/incendiarism	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	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
9 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-BULLOCH-003
3 September 2003	Debris and open burning	9.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021BULLOCH007
22 September 2004	Smoking	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bulloch 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
Pate Place	0.2 miles	17
Westchester	0.5 miles	17
Foxlake	0.6 miles	17
Lakeview Estates	0.6 miles	17
Northwood	0.8 miles	17
Deerfield	0.9 miles	17
Huntington	1.0 miles	17
Georgian Walk	1.4 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350413. 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.