Silver Lake, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mansfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30055. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle.

Silver Lake within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

193 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Silver Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 648 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 17 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	106
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Arson/incendiarism	17
Natural	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
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
26 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-JASPER-004
20 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-NEWTON-001
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-NEWTON-012
16 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-NEWTON-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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
Mansfield Estates	0.7 miles	17
Jerusalem	1.1 miles	16
Mansfield	1.2 miles	16
Hayston	1.3 miles	17
Newborn	3.0 miles	16
Avalon	3.3 miles	12
Brookwood East	3.6 miles	17
Jamestown	3.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673608. 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.