Scarbrough Cross Roads, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Stockbridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30294. It stands on Stanley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Redan quadrangle.

Scarbrough Cross Roads within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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 Redan quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1999 USGS Redan quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Scarbrough Cross Roads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 456 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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 burning	68
Arson/incendiarism	26
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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
23 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021HENRY001
15 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1993	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021CLAYTON001
24 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry 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
Del Pines	0.4 miles	23
Strawberry Hills	0.4 miles	23
Autumn Chase	0.6 miles	18
Panola Woods	0.7 miles	23
Fairfield Glen	0.8 miles	18
Bowden	1.0 miles	23
Fay (historical)	1.1 miles	18
Brookfield Woods	1.4 miles	23

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 Q122567071

The 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 326506. 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.