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Adabelle, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Register census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30452. The Survey maps it on the Register quadrangle.

Adabelle within Bulloch County

On record in Adabelle

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

9 surveys from 16 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

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Adabelle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 832 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 28 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 burning185
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural6
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony6

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
8 September 1997Natural2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Natural1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bulloch County

Storms near this place

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adabelle in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2012Thunderstorm WindAdabelle$2,250The Bulloch County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on a power line along Highway 301 South.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindAdabelle$2,000Siding from the underskirt of a trailer was torn off 2 miles south of the intersection of State Route 301 and Interstate 16.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindAdabelle$1,500Several Trees were blown down on Highway 301 south of Interstate 95.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindAdabelle$1,000Bulloch County dispatch reported a tree down along Kennedy Bridge Road near Ada Bell Road.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindAdabelle$500A tree was reported down on Adabelle Road.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindAdabelle-Bulloch County dispatch reported a tree down in the 700 block of Bowen Lane.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindAdabelle-The public reported 3 trees down 5 miles south southwest of Register.
April 2012HailAdabelle-The public reported nickel-size hail 5 miles south southwest of Register.
June 2011HailAdabelle-The public reported quarter size hail.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindAdabelle-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees in several locations.

Every storm recorded in Bulloch 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
New Hope3.6 miles16
Register5.7 miles16
Bowen Mill6.2 miles19
Overbrook7.1 miles19
Enal (historical)8.0 miles16
Jimps8.1 miles17
Anderson Mill8.2 miles19
Nevils9.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326150. 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.