BlockArabi, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Arabi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31712. The Survey maps it on the Arabi quadrangle. 447 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresArabi fell from 586 to 447 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 586 | |
| 2020 | 447 | -139 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 Arabi quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
261 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Arabi between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,174 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 39 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 | 164 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 39 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 37 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-CRISP-008 |
| 21 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-TURNER-012 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arabi in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arabi | 1 killed | The Crisp county Emergency Management Director reported that a worker at an engineering facility was injured when thunderstorm winds blew a heavy metal door onto the person who as a result suffered serious head injuries. The 51-year old male later died as a result of the injury on August 8, 2003. |
| May 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Arabi | 2 hurt, $100,000 | A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 110 MPH and a maximum path width of 150 yards began just south of Highway 41 and Landfill Road. The tornado quickly intensified as it moved east-northeast and crossed I-75 where a tractor-trailer was blown over onto a car in the southbound lanes, resulting in two minor injuries. Numerous trees were snapped as it continued east-northeast. The tornado reached its maximum intensity in the 200 block of Allied Road where a house had most of its roof blown off and a mobile home across the street was blown off of its block foundation. The mobile home residents had sought shelter in the home across the street several minutes before the tornado hit and were not injured in spite of the extensive damage. Around the intersection of Arabi Williford Road and Highway 90 another mobile home was blown off of its block foundation, but remained upright. Dozens of trees were snapped or uprooted with one falling on a home causing minor damage before the tornado ended just east of Brock Road where one home had minor roof damage. [05/23/17: Tornado #2, County #1/1, EF-1, Crisp, 2017:073]. |
| April 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Arabi | $80,000 | A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that a tornado, which originated in Worth county (covered by National Weather Service Tallahassee, Florida) tracked into Crisp county. The tornado entered Crisp county approximately 5.5 miles west of Arabi and traveled northeast lifting about three miles northeast of Arabi. The overall path length of the tornado, which inculdes both the Worth and Crisp county portions of the track, was 14 miles, approximately 7.5 miles of which occurred within Crisp county. The maximum path width was 200 yards. Maximum winds within the tornado were estimated at 100 mph. A mobile home was shifted off its foundation near Arabi and the support straps were pulled out of the ground. A number of trees were down in the area, some of which were blocking roads. The tornado tracked across Interstate-75 and a vehicle was tossed into the guard rail near exit 92. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arabi | $25,000 | A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia in conjunction with the Crisp County Emergency Management Office confirmed that straight-line thunderstorm outflow winds up to 75 mph caused considerable damage to a mobile home on Brock Road approximately five miles east of Arabi in the southeast part of the county. A few trees were also down in the area, but no other damage of significance was noted. The thunderstorm outflow winds were from a severe thunderstorm producing quarter to golf ball-sized hail across north central Crisp county near Cordele. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arabi | $10,000 | The Crisp County Emergency Management Director reported that a portion of a roof was blown off a home near Arabi and a barn, approximately three miles east of Georgia Veterans Memorial State Park, lost its roof in strong thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| December 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arabi | $5,000 | The Crisp county 911 center reported that trees were blown down 2 miles north of Arabi and a power line was down in Cordele. |
| September 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arabi | $5,000 | Numerous trees and tree limbs were reported down in Arabi. All power was knocked out in Arabi for approximately three hours, from 9:15 PM to 12:10 AM. Structural damage was reported to businesses 5-10 miles east of Cordele. |
| October 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arabi | $3,000 | The Crisp County Emergency Management Director reported that a number of trees were down across the southern part of the county near the Turner County line from west to east of Arabi. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arabi | $1,000 | The Crisp County 911 center reported that several trees were blown down. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Arabi | - | EM via law enforcement reported 1 inch hail in Arabi and surrounding locations. Spotters also reported 1 inch hail just east along I-75. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arabi | - | Tree down on powerlines along Buford Road. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Arabi | - | The Crisp County Emergency Manager reported quarter size hail I'm Arabi. |
| October 2011 | Hail | Arabi | - | The public observed quarter-sized hail at the Plantation House, approximately four miles east-northeast of Arabi. The Crisp County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail approximately four miles northwest of Arabi, near the intersection of U.S. Highway 41 and Georgia Highway 33. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Arabi | - | The Georgia State Patrol reported penny-sized hail. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Arabi | - | The Crisp County 911 center reported penny-sized hail. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Arabi | - | The Crisp county 911 center reported dime size hail across the southeast part of the county. |
| May 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Arabi | - | Crisp county 911 received a public report of a funnel cloud south of Arabi. |
| November 1997 | Hail | Arabi | - | Crisp county 911 reported dime to golfball size hail. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Arabi | - | no account filed |
| March 1993 | Hail | Arabi | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Arabi | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2291075 | The 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 331047. 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.