Quinn Ridge, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Snellville-Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30039. It stands on Jacks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Snellville quadrangle.

Quinn Ridge within Gwinnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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
1956 USGS Snellville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Snellville quadrangle1:24000
1999 USGS Snellville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Quinn Ridge between 1992 and 2013, burning about 327 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 42 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	42
Recreation and ceremony	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Debris and open burning	11
Natural	6
Smoking	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	6.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gwinnett 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
Timber Trace	0.8 miles	22
Twin Village	1.0 miles	22
Monterey Acres	1.3 miles	22
Mason Woods	1.3 miles	22
Centerville	1.3 miles	22
Cumberland Forest	1.4 miles	22
Shiloh Farms	1.4 miles	22
The Moorings	1.5 miles	22

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 Q122589658

The 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 1688319. 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.