Rivermist, 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 30047. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Snellville quadrangle.

Rivermist within Gwinnett County

On record in Rivermist

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 1 record

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

Hudson-Nash House and Cemeterylisted 1990 · 0.6 miles away

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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Rivermist between 1992 and 2007, burning about 271 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 41 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	41
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Debris and open burning	8
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	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
29 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.8 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
Yellow River (historical)	0.7 miles	22
Country Square	1.2 miles	22
Stonemont	1.3 miles	22
Cedar Creek	1.4 miles	22
Rainbow Estates	1.5 miles	22
River Oak	1.6 miles	21
Five Forks	1.6 miles	21
Scenic Mountain	1.7 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1688333. 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.