Shoal Creek Farms, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30605. The Survey maps it on the Athens East quadrangle.

Shoal Creek Farms within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Athens East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1998 USGS Athens East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Shoal Creek Farms between 1992 and 2019, burning about 268 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 28 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	50
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-OGLETHORPE-009
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-OCONEE-002
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-OGLETHORPE-014
22 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-OGLETHORPE-010
1 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-OCONEE-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke 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
Barch Estates	1.1 miles	13
Waverly Woods	1.1 miles	13
Plantation Estates	1.3 miles	13
Hunters Ridge	1.4 miles	13
Idylwood	1.7 miles	11
Lexington Estates	1.8 miles	13
Waterford	2.0 miles	13
Hickory Point	2.0 miles	11

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 Q122571993

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 1672876. 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.