Pine Grove, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mansfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30055. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield quadrangle.

Pine Grove within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

185 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 185 fires within 5 miles of Pine Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 737 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 14 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	98
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	12
Smoking	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
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
8 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Natural	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2007	Natural	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1993	Smoking	6.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-NEWTON-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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
Willow Woods	1.3 miles	16
Deer Track	1.5 miles	16
Quail Valley	2.2 miles	16
Hollow Hills	2.2 miles	17
Skyline	2.4 miles	17
Hub Junction	2.7 miles	17
Dixie Acres	2.8 miles	17
Dixie	2.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673572. 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.