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Aline, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Aline census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30420. The Survey maps it on the Cobbtown quadrangle.

Aline within Candler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

424 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 424 fires within 5 miles of Aline between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,346 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 73 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 burning259
Arson/incendiarism73
Equipment and vehicle use38
Natural14
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking6

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 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use4.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CANDLER005
28 September 1996Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Candler County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aline in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAline$10,000Law Enforcement reported trees down on the roof of a house and quarter size hail along Highway 121 at the Candler and Tattnall County line.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindAline$1,000County Warning Point reported a tree down at the 3700 block of Highway 23.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAline$500The public reported a tree down on Highway 121, one mile north of Cobbtown, Georgia.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindAline$500One tree was reported down in Canoe, GA.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAline-The Candler County Sheriff's Office reported a tree down on power lines near the intersection of Griffin Ferry Road and 46 West.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAline-The Candler County Sheriff's Office reported trees and power lines down in several locations, including on Macwac Lake Road, Holland Road and Freedom Lane.
June 2022HailAline-The public reported quarter size hail along Interstate 16 causing a crack in a windshield.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAline-A Candler County emergency manager reported multiple trees down near the intersection of Highway 57 and Piney Grove Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAline-The Candler County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Holland Road near the intersection with Strange Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindAline-Trees were reported down across Cool Spring Church Road.
July 2018HailAline-The public reported hail estimated up to the size of golf balls.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindAline-Candler County dispatch reported a tree down on Eden Church Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAline-The Candler County 911 Call Center reported 2 trees down on Highway 57 South.
March 2012HailAline-The public reported hail the size of golfballs on Morgan Road. The hail fell for about 3 minutes.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAline-Thunderstorm winds knocked down several large trees, one of which fell across Highway 57.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindAline-Trees and limbs were down
December 2002Thunderstorm WindAline-Several trees were down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAline-Power lines down.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindAline-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Candler 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
Canoe4.2 miles9
Shamrock5.0 miles9
Metter5.9 miles9
Parish9.4 miles16
Olifftown9.8 miles9
Union10.1 miles9
Excelsior10.8 miles16
Pulaski11.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331020. 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.