Sibley Forest, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Northeast Cobb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30067. It stands on Sope Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sandy Springs quadrangle.

Sibley Forest within Cobb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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
1955 USGS Sandy Springs quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Sandy Springs quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Sandy Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Sibley Forest between 1992 and 2019, burning about 51 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
25 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	AKERS MILL
25 June 1992	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 April 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 April 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 April 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	POWERSFERY
17 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area	PALISADES
24 March 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb 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
Millridge	0.8 miles	23
Greyfield	0.9 miles	23
Terrell Mill Estates	1.0 miles	23
Chimney Trace	1.2 miles	23
Valencia Hill	1.3 miles	23
The Courtyards	1.3 miles	23
Crossgate	1.7 miles	23
Post Harbor	1.9 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 Q122568383

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 1704837. 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.