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Paradise Estates, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Villa Rica census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30180. It stands on Astin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Villa Rica quadrangle.

Paradise Estates within Carroll 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.

Fires near this place

248 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Paradise Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 816 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 77 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 burning94
Arson/incendiarism77
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Equipment and vehicle use15
Smoking12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1993Debris and open burning5.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Arson/incendiarism8.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PAULDING-011
18 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1999Debris and open burning17 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Paradise Estates: 7 past producers, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron-Pyrite, Mica, Iron-Pyrite, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jenny Stone ProspectIron-Pyrite, ZincOccurrenceGossan
Treadway ProspectMicaProspect
Villa RicaIron-Pyrite, Copper, Zinc, Cobalt, NickelOccurrenceStratabound Concordant Massive Sulfide
Villa Rica MineSulfurPast Producer
Villa Rica Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
A. C. Watkins ProspectIron-Pyrite, GoldOccurrencePyrite
Lasseter ProspectIron-PyritePast ProducerPyrite
Chambers MineGoldPast ProducerVein
HartGoldProspectVein
HixonGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Carroll 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
Rolling View Estates0.5 miles16
Hart Town0.7 miles17
Driskolls1.1 miles17
Old Villa Rica1.2 miles17
Villa Rica2.1 miles17
Chestnut Hill (historical)2.9 miles17
Temple4.4 miles15
Ithaca4.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 349679. 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.