Pebble Brook, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Buford-Sugar Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30518. The Survey maps it on the Hog Mountain quadrangle.

Pebble Brook within Gwinnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1891 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hog Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Hog Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Pebble Brook between 1992 and 2018, burning about 434 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 44 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	53
Arson/incendiarism	44
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	4

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
30 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	6.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HALL-005
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2002	Natural	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GWINNETT-003
11 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HALL-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gwinnett County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pebble Brook: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Friendship Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Level Creek Gold Mine	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gwinnett 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
Rest Haven	0.8 miles	16
Springlake Estates	1.1 miles	15
Sagefield	1.1 miles	16
Woodbriar East	1.3 miles	15
Buford	1.5 miles	20
Myrdell Estates	2.5 miles	15
Rock Creek Estates	2.6 miles	15
Northwest Harbor	2.7 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1688306. 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.