University Heights, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30605. The Survey maps it on the Athens East quadrangle.

University Heights within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Athens East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1998 USGS Athens East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of University Heights between 1992 and 2016, burning about 250 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 31 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
Arson/incendiarism	31
Debris and open burning	28
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	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
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CLARKE-001
23 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke 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 University Heights: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Athens Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	The Georgia Loan & Trust Co. Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clarke 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
River Hill East	0.5 miles	13
Carriage Hills	0.8 miles	13
Clarkedale	0.8 miles	13
Green Acres	0.9 miles	13
Shoalsview	1.0 miles	13
Riverbend East	1.0 miles	13
Ansley Park	1.0 miles	13
Whitehall	1.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672904. 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.