Shoal Creek Forest, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Newnan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30277. It stands on Rock Branch. The Survey maps it on the Madras quadrangle.

Shoal Creek Forest within Coweta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Madras quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Shoal Creek Forest between 1992 and 2019, burning about 449 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 29 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	149
Arson/incendiarism	29
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Smoking	7
Natural	7
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
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-COWETA-003
16 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-COWETA-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coweta County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Shoal Creek Forest: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension. 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
A.J. Mcelwaney Quarry	Marble, Dimension	Past Producer
J H Neely Place	Granite	Occurrence
Tyrone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Coweta 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
Fischers Crossroad	1.0 miles	9
Rocky Shoals Estates	1.8 miles	11
Creekwood	2.0 miles	11
Wood Valley Estates	2.2 miles	11
Longstreet	2.2 miles	11
Vineyard Crossroads	2.6 miles	11
Thomas Crossroads	2.7 miles	11
Cannongate Acres	3.2 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 Q122545438

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 348610. 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.