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Williamsburg Park, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the College Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30349. It stands on Eagles Brook. The Survey maps it on the Riverdale quadrangle.

Williamsburg Park within Clayton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Williamsburg Park between 1992 and 2016, burning about 192 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 40 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/incendiarism40
Debris and open burning14
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3
Natural1

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
14 September 1993Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning7.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-FULTON SOUTH-001
4 August 2007Smoking1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton 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 Williamsburg Park: 2 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Forest Park QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Red Oak QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Clayton 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
Cheeko Manor0.3 miles21
Heatherwood0.4 miles21
Park Place South0.6 miles21
Castile Cove0.8 miles21
Twin Creeks0.8 miles21
Saranac Estates0.8 miles21
Saranac0.9 miles21
Crystal Acres0.9 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1688496. 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.