River Hills, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Atlanta-Decatur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30294. It stands on Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Atlanta quadrangle.

River Hills within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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
1954 USGS Conley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Southeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Southeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of River Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 320 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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	33
Debris and open burning	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
23 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021HENRY001
22 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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
Rovena Acres	0.6 miles	21
Weather Wood	0.6 miles	21
Tolliver Heights	0.7 miles	21
Wishing Well Hills	0.8 miles	21
Skyline Forest	0.8 miles	21
Forest Ridge	0.8 miles	21
Blue Creek Forest	0.8 miles	21
Blue Creek	1.1 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1687317. 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.