Arp, 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 31783. The Survey maps it on the Rebecca quadrangle.

Arp 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
1974 USGS Rebecca quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Photographs

1 photograph, 1977

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Harper's Grocery, on Five Bridge Road between Tifton and Ocilla, Georgia
Marshall, Howard W. (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

319 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 319 fires within 5 miles of Arp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,179 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 26 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	198
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Arson/incendiarism	26
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Natural	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	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 Arp in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Arp	$5,000	A tin roof was blown off a barn.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Arp	$500	A tree was blown down onto Highway 107.
March 2020	Flood	Arp	-	Water was reported over Eisenhower Road.
February 2013	Flood	Arp	-	Persistent moderate to heavy rain over a greater than 6 hour period led to flooding across portions of Irwin County. Around a half dozen dirt roads were closed around the county as well as portions of Highway 107. Irwin county schools were closed for the day as a result of the flooding. No structures were impacted.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Arp	-	A couple of roads were reported underwater in rural northern Irwin county.

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
Abba	1.9 miles	7
Lands Crossroads	2.8 miles	8
Irwinville	7.5 miles	8
Mystic	10.0 miles	8
Pinetta	11.5 miles	8
Waterloo	11.8 miles	8
Ocilla	13.9 miles	8
Osierfield	16.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331053. 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.