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Billyville, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodbine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31569. It lies near Tillman Island. The Survey maps it on the Woodbine quadrangle.

Billyville within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Billyville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 678 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 17 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 burning73
Natural43
Equipment and vehicle use38
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony2

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
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Billyville in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2012Thunderstorm WindBillyville-Trees were blown down a half of a mile south of mile marker 12 on Interstate 95.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBillyville-Trees and power lines were blown down across the county.

Every storm recorded in Camden 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
Colesburg1.8 miles18
Runnymeade2.8 miles18
Halifax2.8 miles18
Ceylon3.0 miles18
Woodbine3.4 miles18
Plantation Point3.4 miles18
Seals3.8 miles17
Scarlet4.4 miles17

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.

Wikidata item Q122562541The 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 326185. 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.