Westwood Heights, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Douglasville-Lithia Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30134. The Survey maps it on the Nebo quadrangle.

Westwood Heights within Douglas County

On record in Westwood Heights

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 1 record

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

Douglas County Courthouselisted 2002 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1973 USGS Nebo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Westwood Heights between 1992 and 2019, burning about 372 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 49 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	89
Arson/incendiarism	49
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Smoking	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
8 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-PAULDING-007
27 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	6.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 Westwood Heights: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Douglasville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Mountainview Estates	0.4 miles	17
Lincoln Heights	0.8 miles	17
Douglasville	1.0 miles	20
Salem	1.1 miles	17
Forest Heights	1.2 miles	20
Malone Park	1.4 miles	20
Alta Vista	1.5 miles	17
Dorris	1.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1686553. 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.