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Winter Hills, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Winterville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30683. The Survey maps it on the Athens East quadrangle.

Winter Hills within Clarke County

On record in Winter Hills

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Winter Hills between 1992 and 2019, burning about 260 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 31 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 burning102
Arson/incendiarism31
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-OGLETHORPE-010
14 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke 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 Winter Hills: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Athens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
The Georgia Loan & Trust Co. MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clarke 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
Winterville0.3 miles13
West Winter0.8 miles13
Overlook Lake1.2 miles13
Windfall Heights1.4 miles13
Weatherly Woods1.6 miles13
Lakeside Hills2.2 miles13
Shoal Creek2.2 miles13
Eastmeadow2.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672927. 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.