West Hampton, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Hampton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30228. The Survey maps it on the Hampton quadrangle.

West Hampton within Henry County

On record in West Hampton

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 2 records

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

Henderson Manufacturing Companylisted 2004 · 0.7 miles away
Hampton Depotlisted 1979 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Hampton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1999 USGS Hampton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

205 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 205 fires within 5 miles of West Hampton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 681 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 20 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	104
Misuse of fire by a minor	29
Arson/incendiarism	20
Smoking	16
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	5

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
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-SPALDING-001
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	36 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-HENRY-001
10 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HENRY-009
20 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-SPALDING-009
2 August 1995	Smoking	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-SPALDING-007
15 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	4.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Hampton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Madras Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Henry 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
Hampton	0.6 miles	11
Woodlawn	0.8 miles	11
Crystal Springs	0.8 miles	11
Fortson	1.0 miles	11
Lake Cindy Estates	1.5 miles	11
Lake Talmadge	2.5 miles	11
Mount Carmel Estates	3.4 miles	11
Greenwood	6.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672010. 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.