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Rest Haven, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Buford-Sugar Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30518. The Survey maps it on the Flowery Branch quadrangle. 45 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.

Rest Haven within Gwinnett County

Population over time

2 figures

Rest Haven fell from 62 to 45 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201062
202045-17 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Rest Haven between 1992 and 2018, burning about 414 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 45 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 burning53
Arson/incendiarism45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4

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
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarism6.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HALL-005
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism14 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2002Natural3.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-GWINNETT-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gwinnett County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rest Haven: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Atlantic Steel/ Cartersville, Ga.IronProducer
Friendship QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Gwinnett County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rest Haven in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2012: 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2009FloodRest Haven$630,000Significant flooding continued across much of Gwinnett county during this period. Several creeks and streams were in at least moderate flood from record rainfall. The USGS stream gage on Shoal Creek near Lawrenceville exceeded its flood stage of 11 feet for several hours, beginning at 459 pm EDT, and the Apalachee River near Dacula exceeded its flood stage of 8 feet for several hours beginning at 604 pm EDT. The Alcovy River, just southeast of Lawrenceville, went into moderate flood during this time period. Additional monetary damage in excess of $600,000, primarily to roads, was estimated to have occurred during this time frame.
October 2012Flash FloodRest Haven$5,000Flash flooding occurred on Pew Creek, Sweetwater Creek, Suwanee Creek, and the headwaters of the Alcovy River around Lawrenceville. Minor flooding of the natural flood plains occurred causing some debris cleanup. The USGS stream gage on Pew Creek at Patterson Road reached flood stage of 11 feet at 1115 pm EST. It crest at 11.84 feet. The USGS stream gage on the Sweetwater Creek at Club Drive reached flood stage of 11 feet at 1245 am EST on 10/2/2012. It crest at 11.48 feet.
June 2007HailRest Haven-The public reported penny-sized hail about five miles north of Hog Mountain near Rest Haven.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pebble Brook0.8 miles15
Sagefield0.8 miles16
Buford1.7 miles20
Springlake Estates1.8 miles15
Woodbriar East2.0 miles15
Northwest Harbor2.5 miles21
Lake Lanier Vista2.5 miles21
Lake Forest3.1 miles21

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.

Wikipedia article on Rest HavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q579454The 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 332834. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.