Quail Valley, 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 30025. It stands on Gibson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield quadrangle.

Quail Valley within Newton County

On record in Quail Valley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Brick Storelisted 2009 · 0.5 miles away

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

189 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Quail Valley between 1993 and 2020, burning about 698 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 18 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	95
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	15
Smoking	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	5

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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.3 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
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
Hub Junction	0.6 miles	17
Skyline	0.9 miles	17
Willow Woods	1.0 miles	16
Melody	1.3 miles	17
Deer Track	1.5 miles	16
Surry Chase	1.9 miles	16
East Wood	2.0 miles	17
Beacon Hill	2.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673580. 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.