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Whitlock Farms, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Lawrenceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30043. The Survey maps it on the Suwanee quadrangle.

Whitlock Farms within Gwinnett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

Fires near this place

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Whitlock Farms between 1992 and 2018, burning about 321 acres in total. None started naturally. 44 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
Arson/incendiarism44
Debris and open burning21
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Misuse of fire by a minor16 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1998Debris and open burning5.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2000Arson/incendiarism24 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-GWINNETT-001
6 July 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gwinnett County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Whitlock Farms: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Galite #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Level Creek Gold MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gwinnett 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pine Ridge Point0.9 miles15
Pine Ridge Country Club Estates1.1 miles20
Habersham Hills1.3 miles15
Woodhaven Downs1.7 miles15
The Circles1.8 miles15
Arbor Trace1.8 miles20
Oak Village1.9 miles20
Somerset Hills2.0 miles15

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 Q122566846The 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 1688427. 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.