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Aimar, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ludowici South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31316. The Survey maps it on the Walthourville quadrangle. It stands 79 feet above sea level.

Aimar within Long County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

681 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 681 fires within 5 miles of Aimar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,289 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 213 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 burning266
Arson/incendiarism213
Misuse of fire by a minor64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Natural30
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking13
Recreation and ceremony12

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
9 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-LONG-001
6 September 1999Debris and open burning5.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-LONG-008
30 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Long County

Storms near this place

26 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aimar in 26 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 21 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2008Thunderstorm WindAimar$3,000Trees and power lines were reported down 3 miles south of Walthourville, Georgia.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindAimar$1,250The Long County 911 Call Center reported power lines down on Sandy Run Road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAimar$1,250A 911 center reported a power line down on Rye Patch Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAimar$1,000The Long County 911 call center relayed a report of 1 tree down along Tibet Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAimar$1,000One tree blown on Rye Patch Road, near Lanier Road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAimar$1,000A 911 center reported a tree down on Palmer Road.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAimar$500One tree was reported down along Elim Church Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindAimar-A Long County emergency manager reported a tree down on Lanier Road.
May 2022HailAimar-Penny sized hail was reported on Griffin Road near Tibet Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAimar-A Long County emergency manager reported a tree down on a home along Whit Frasier Road.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindAimar-The Long County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Arnall Drive in Ludowici.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindAimar-The Long County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Arnold Drive.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindAimar-The Long County 911 Cal Center reported a tree down on Godfrey Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAimar-The Long County 911 Call Center reported multiple trees down near the intersection of Highway 84 and Simmons Crossing Southeast.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAimar-A firefighter reported a tree on a power line along Rye Patch Road.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindAimar-The Long County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Thompson Road and Griffin Road.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindAimar-The Long County 911 Call Center reported several trees and power lines down in and near Land Of Lakes Mobile Home Park. Several mobile homes and 4 vehicles were reported with damage.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindAimar-The Long County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Tibet Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAimar-A large pine tree was blown down on Pearl Davis Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAimar-The public relayed a picture of a large tree down in the Horsecreek Farms subdivision.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindAimar-Long County dispatch reported two trees down near Walthourville. One tree was down on Elim Church Road near Cypress Creek Road and the other tree was down on Barrett Cemetary Road at Highwway 84 blocking both lanes.
June 2012HailAimar-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
April 2009HailAimar-A public report was received of golf ball size hail 7 miles east of Donald, Georgia.
July 2008Flash FloodAimar-Heavy rain resulted in flooding yards of residences on Elim Church Road, 7 miles north-northeast of Ludowici, Georgia.
August 2008HailAimar-Penny size hail was reported by a trained weather spotter 6 miles north of Ludowici, Georgia.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindAimar-Several large tree limbs were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Long 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
Elim2.9 miles17
Ludowici4.9 miles13
Brewer (historical)5.2 miles13
Wefanie7.8 miles16
Roderick (historical)8.7 miles16
Smiley Crossroads9.1 miles16
Tibet (historical)9.7 miles13
Donald10.6 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AimarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q94955298The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348148. 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.