Scenic Hills, Georgia

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ringgold census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30736. The Survey maps it on the East Ridge quadrangle.

Scenic Hills within Catoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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.

1886 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Catoosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1892 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1935 USGS East Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS East Ridge quadrangle1:24000
1946 USGS East Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS East Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS East Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1982 USGS East Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

573 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 573 fires within 5 miles of Scenic Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,148 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 79 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	295
Arson/incendiarism	79
Equipment and vehicle use	77
Misuse of fire by a minor	34
Smoking	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Recreation and ceremony	15
Natural	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	4

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 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CATOOSA-008
8 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CATOOSA-005
8 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CATOOSA-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Scenic Hills: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unnamed	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Clark Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Graysville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hales Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Catoosa 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
Ellie Spring	0.4 miles	28
East Boynton	0.7 miles	28
Love Hill	0.8 miles	28
Boynton	1.7 miles	28
Poplar Springs	1.7 miles	28
Old Mill Trace	2.0 miles	28
Summit Hill	2.4 miles	28
Indian Springs	2.4 miles	28

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332990. 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.