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Parkwood Commons, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Acworth-Kennesaw census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30102. The Survey maps it on the Kennesaw quadrangle.

Parkwood Commons within Cobb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Parkwood Commons between 1992 and 2016, burning about 334 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 58 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 burning63
Arson/incendiarism58
Misuse of fire by a minor47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHEROKEE-006
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CHEROKEE-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Parkwood Commons: 18 past producers, 9 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Bell-Star MineIron, ManganeseProspect1918
Evalee Richards ProspectZinc, Copper, LeadProspect
Kennesaw QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chalker MineMicaPast Producer
Delay ProspectMicaProspect
J V Ledford MineMicaPast Producer
M M Cole MineMicaPast Producer
Bell-StarGoldPast ProducerVein
CoxGoldPast ProducerVein
CoxGoldProspectVein

Every working recorded in Cobb 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
Cambria Hills0.5 miles23
Arden Lake0.7 miles23
Chestnut Hill0.8 miles23
Abington Green0.9 miles23
Hickory Forest1.0 miles23
Hamby Place1.1 miles23
Lake Latimer2.0 miles23
Falcon Hills2.1 miles23

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 Q122554312The 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 1686012. 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.