Whitewater Estates, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Abbottsford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30240. The Survey maps it on the Abbottsford quadrangle.

Whitewater Estates within Troup County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Abbottsford quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Whitewater Estates between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,067 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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	64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	11
Smoking	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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
5 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2008	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-HEARD-003
5 August 1996	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Troup 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
Antioch	0.8 miles	14
Covered Bridge	1.1 miles	14
Turkey Point	2.5 miles	14
Vernon	2.8 miles	14
Vernon (historical)	3.1 miles	14
Whitewater Woods	3.1 miles	14
Riverridge	3.5 miles	14
Indian Bend	3.6 miles	12

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 Q122560606

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 1673164. 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.