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Woodcrest, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Atlanta-Decatur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30294. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Atlanta quadrangle.

Woodcrest within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Woodcrest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 388 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism34
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CLAYTON-002
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CLAYTON-001
23 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021HENRY001
22 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1995Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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
Miramar0.4 miles21
Cedar Valley1.1 miles21
Tolliver Heights1.2 miles21
Wishing Well Hills1.3 miles21
Cedar Grove1.3 miles21
Blue Creek1.5 miles21
Lincolndale1.5 miles21
Conley Downs1.8 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1687360. 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.