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Pittsburg, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Tucker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30340. It stands on Lucky Shoals Creek. The Survey maps it on the Norcross quadrangle.

Pittsburg within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Pittsburg between 1992 and 2005, burning about 101 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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
Arson/incendiarism20
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
15 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1993Recreation and ceremony1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 1995Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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 Pittsburg: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Norcross QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Norcross ShopsStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pittsburg in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019Thunderstorm WindPittsburg$60,000The DeKalb County Emergency Manager and the local broadcast media reported dozens of trees and a few power lines blown down in the Embry Hills area along Embry Hills Drive. A wind gust of 57 mph was measured by Georgia DOT equipment in this area as well. Some trees fell onto homes and automobiles.
July 2013Flash FloodPittsburg$10,000The DeKalb County emergency manager reported an apartment off of Lansbury Village Drive was flooded with several inches of water by Peachtree Branch overflowing its banks. Also the upper end of the North Fork Peachtree Creek in the Doraville area experienced minor flooding.
April 2017HailPittsburg-The attendant at a gas station at the corner of Stonecrest Court and Chamblee Tucker Road reported quarter size hail.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Habersham1.1 miles21
Sterling Acres1.8 miles24
Tucker1.8 miles24
Embry Hills1.9 miles21
Mountain Woods2.8 miles24
Cambridge Square3.0 miles21
Patriots Hill3.3 miles24
Buchanan (historical)3.3 miles21

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.

Wikipedia article on PittsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7199169The 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 332701. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.