The Highlands, Georgia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Taylor-Brawner House and Brawner Sanitariumlisted 2012 · 0.6 miles away

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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of The Highlands between 1993 and 2019, burning about 13 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Country Park
• Countryside at Cumberland
• Rose Garden Hills
• Farmstead
• McIvor (historical)
• Cumberland Bridge

Every fire recorded in Cobb County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of The Highlands: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Cobb County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1704848. 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.