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Ravenwood Park, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Washington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30673. The Survey maps it on the Washington East quadrangle.

Ravenwood Park within Wilkes County

On record in Ravenwood Park

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Ravenwood Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 376 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Natural8
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
9 September 2017Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-WILKES-003
29 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance7.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-WILKES-003
27 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-WILKES-004
24 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WILKES-011
23 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use5.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1995Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes 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
Logan0.6 miles13
Anne Heights1.1 miles13
Washington1.2 miles13
Washington Heights2.6 miles13
Porters3.0 miles13
Lincoln Heights3.0 miles13
Jackson Heights3.5 miles12
Cohentown4.2 miles13

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 Q122542935The 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 342790. 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.