Plymouth Colony, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Chamblee-Doraville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30345. It stands on Henderson Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Northeast Atlanta quadrangle.

Plymouth Colony within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

1888 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Northeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Northeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Northeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Plymouth Colony between 1993 and 1999, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
15 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 May 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 April 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 March 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 March 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 March 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Northwoods	1.3 miles	21
Humphries (historical)	1.9 miles	21
North Atlanta	2.2 miles	21
Chamblee	2.2 miles	21
Brookhaven	2.4 miles	21
Goodwin Crossing (historical)	2.4 miles	21
Oak Grove	2.4 miles	21
Embry Hills	2.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1687313. 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.