Whipporwill Ridge, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Fayetteville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30215. The Survey maps it on the Fayetteville quadrangle.

Whipporwill Ridge within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Fayetteville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Whipporwill Ridge between 1992 and 2016, burning about 119 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	4
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
1 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FAYETTE-001
7 July 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-FAYETTE-001
3 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 July 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 June 2011	Natural	4.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-FAYETTE-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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 Whipporwill Ridge: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
	Porter Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Fayette 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
Rest (historical)	0.4 miles	10
Shannon	0.5 miles	10
Chandler Acres	0.9 miles	10
Gregory Estates	1.2 miles	10
McIntosh Village	1.2 miles	10
Rolling Meadows Estates	1.4 miles	10
Harp	1.5 miles	10
Coventry Estates	1.7 miles	10

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 Q122561833

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 1687965. 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.