Ridgewood, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Lawrenceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30043. It stands on Wildcat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hog Mountain quadrangle.

Ridgewood within Gwinnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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 Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hog Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Hog Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Ridgewood between 1992 and 2018, burning about 335 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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	39
Debris and open burning	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
5 August 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1992	Arson/incendiarism	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1998	Debris and open burning	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 July 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GWINNETT-001

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 Ridgewood: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dixie Blue Quarry	Granite	Producer
	Galite #1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working 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
The Circles	0.5 miles	15
Woodhaven Downs	0.7 miles	15
Gunter Estates	1.2 miles	18
Allendale	1.2 miles	18
Somerset Hills	1.3 miles	15
Pine Ridge Point	1.4 miles	15
Pine Ridge Country Club Estates	1.5 miles	20
Country Park	1.5 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1688326. 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.