Wesley Station, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Austell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30106. The Survey maps it on the Austell quadrangle.

Wesley Station within Cobb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

1891 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Marietta quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Austell quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Austell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1999 USGS Austell quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Wesley Station between 1992 and 2018, burning about 200 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 16 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
25 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PAULDING-004
22 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2007	Natural	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2016	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PAULDING-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cobb 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
Hillsdale Heights	0.2 miles	20
James Heights	0.4 miles	20
Clarkdale	1.0 miles	20
Springbrook	1.8 miles	20
Powder Springs	2.0 miles	20
Pine Oaks	2.0 miles	20
Westridge	2.0 miles	20
Bannister Acres	2.0 miles	20

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 Q122571546

The 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 1686686. 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.