Quails Nest, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Austell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30008. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mableton quadrangle.

Quails Nest within Cobb County

On record in Quails Nest

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.

Andrew J. Cheney Houselisted 1979 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1891 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Mableton quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Mableton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Quails Nest between 1993 and 2012, burning about 70 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	3

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
16 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 1995	Natural	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park	90109
12 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb 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
Sherwood Estates	0.3 miles	19
Cherokee Trail	0.8 miles	19
Blue Ridge Manor	1.5 miles	19
Milford	1.5 miles	20
Country Lake	1.7 miles	17
Wesley Station	2.3 miles	20
Hillsdale Heights	2.6 miles	20
Floyd	2.6 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1704825. 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.