Abba, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Irwinville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31750. The Survey maps it on the Sibbie quadrangle.

Abba within Irwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Sibbie quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

372 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 372 fires within 5 miles of Abba between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,186 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 46 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	222
Arson/incendiarism	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Natural	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	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
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1995	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-IRWIN-005
28 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-IRWIN-006
28 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-IRWIN-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Irwin County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abba in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2024	Flash Flood	Abba	-	A portion of Fillmore Road was flooded and washed out.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Abba	-	Water was reported over Jeff Davis Road.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Abba	-	A tree was blown down on Highway 107 between Lands Crossing and Prospect Church Road.
February 2013	Flood	Abba	-	Water was across several roads in the county with 7 road closures reported, mainly dirt roads. This was due a gradual accumulation of water from persistent moderate to heavy rainfall over a greater than 6 hour duration.
March 2019	Hail	Abba	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Irwin 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
Arp	1.9 miles	7
Lands Crossroads	2.7 miles	8
Irwinville	7.5 miles	8
Mystic	9.5 miles	8
Pinetta	11.3 miles	8
Waterloo	12.5 miles	8
Ocilla	12.9 miles	8
Osierfield	14.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 330993. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.