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Pinecrest Heights, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Murrayville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30506. It stands on Sardis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chestatee quadrangle.

Pinecrest Heights within Hall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Pinecrest Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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 burning89
Arson/incendiarism25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use16
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2

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 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HALL-003
6 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HALL-006
23 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HALL-004
23 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hall County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Pinecrest Heights: 14 prospects, 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica. 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
Merck MineMicaPast Producer
MerkGold, MicaProspectVein
Brenau CollegeGoldProspectVein
Cool Spring ChurchGoldPast ProducerVein
Currahee MineGoldProspectVein
DeanGoldProspectVein
Elrod/Stephens/Keath/Newton/Ivy Mt./Prater MinesGoldPast ProducerVein
Ivy Mtn.GoldProspectVein
Johnson PropertyGoldPast ProducerVein
JonesGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Hall 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
White0.2 miles14
Sidney on Lanier0.3 miles14
Venture Cove0.4 miles14
Holiday Hills0.7 miles14
Crown Point0.8 miles14
Pine Hills0.8 miles14
Looper Lake1.1 miles14
Wolfs Head1.1 miles14

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 Q122594127The 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 1686789. 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.