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Tinsley Mill Village, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Peachtree City-Tyrone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30269. The Survey maps it on the Tyrone quadrangle.

Tinsley Mill Village within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Tinsley Mill Village between 1992 and 2018, burning about 230 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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 burning66
Arson/incendiarism14
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use3

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Natural1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-COWETA-007
2 August 2002Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FAYETTE-002
17 August 1995Natural1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2016Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FAYETTE-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tinsley Mill Village: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
A.J. Mcelwaney QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Tyrone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fayette 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ridgelake0.2 miles9
The Arbors0.2 miles9
Saint Andrews Square0.2 miles9
Dover Square0.2 miles9
The Cloister0.3 miles9
Edgewater0.5 miles9
Cobblestone Creek0.5 miles9
The Highlands0.5 miles9

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 Q122597870The 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 1687949. 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.