Northwest Woods, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Watkinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30677. It stands on Parker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Athens West quadrangle.

Northwest Woods within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Athens West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1998 USGS Athens West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Northwest Woods between 1992 and 2017, burning about 266 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 13 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	74
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee 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
Windy Creek	0.8 miles	15
Woodlands	0.8 miles	15
Echo Brook Park	1.0 miles	15
Lake Forest	1.1 miles	15
Stonebridge	1.2 miles	15
Brookwood Estates	1.2 miles	15
Indian Hills	1.3 miles	15
Westbury	1.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356770. 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.