Westchester, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Bogart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30606. It stands on Malcolm Branch. The Survey maps it on the Athens West quadrangle.

Westchester within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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 West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1998 USGS Athens West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Westchester between 1992 and 2020, burning about 237 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 26 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	37
Arson/incendiarism	26
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JACKSON-002
11 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CLARKE-004
1 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-JACKSON-004
28 August 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-JACKSON-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke 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 Westchester: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	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
Creekwood Estates	0.5 miles	15
Woodhaven High Ridge	0.6 miles	15
Chadds Walk	0.6 miles	15
Tara Way	0.6 miles	15
Elder	0.7 miles	15
Forest Heights	0.7 miles	15
Homewood Hills	0.8 miles	15
Pine Forest	0.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672915. 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.