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Villa Crest, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Macon West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31204. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Macon West quadrangle.

Villa Crest within Bibb County

On record in Villa Crest

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 4 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Villa Crest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 350 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 51 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/incendiarism51
Debris and open burning46
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking5
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BIBB-001
4 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minor3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021BIBB002
30 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burning8.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BIBB001
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb 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 Villa Crest: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, Clay. 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
Burns Brick Co MineClayProducer
Pikes Peak Fuller's EarthFullers EarthPast ProducerCristobalite, Opal, Montmorillonite

Every working recorded in Bibb 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
Payne0.2 miles14
Hillview0.4 miles14
Bellevue0.4 miles14
Bon Ayer0.6 miles14
Lakewood0.7 miles14
Ingleside0.9 miles14
Crestwell Heights0.9 miles14
Country Club Estates0.9 miles14

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 Q122550165The 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 1672323. 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.