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Capel, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cairo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39827. The Survey maps it on the Cairo North quadrangle.

Capel within Grady County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

328 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 328 fires within 5 miles of Capel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 646 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 21 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 burning249
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking14
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural5

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 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burning2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grady County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Capel in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
February 2008Tornado (EF1)Capel1 hurt, $150,000The same supercell thunderstorm which spawned the brief EF0 tornado in southeast Decatur County produced an EF1 tornado just west of State Highway 93 on Courtney Lane. Mobile homes along Courtney Lane suffered minor roof damage and skirting was torn from their bases. Also, numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado traveled northeast and uprooted several trees near two homes on Shorty Lane. A mobile home lost portions of its roof. A single family home lost a few shingles off its roof. Two homes east of Shorty Lane on Wilcox Road were damaged. The tornado then moved along Pine Forest Road east of State Highway 111. About a mile up Pine Forest Road, a mobile home was destroyed with the free standing carport tossed 200 yards into the nearby forest. The occupant of the mobile home was injured when it rolled over. The roof and exterior walls were destroyed. The frame remained attached to the undercarriage of the mobile home.
June 2008Flash FloodCapel$25,000Four inches of rain in less than two hours caused damage to a few roads from Pine Level Road north to Gilliard Road. There were two roads where the pipes were washed out. A small portion of Baggett Mill Road suffered a wash out at a bridge, and where debris accumulated around a drain pipe under the road had collapsed away.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCapel$250There were several trees down on county roads northeast of Cairo near Highway 93.
July 2022Flash FloodCapel-Water was reported over the roadway near Capel Road and Ridge Road.

Every storm recorded in Grady 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
Pleasant Grove1.6 miles12
Akridge2.1 miles12
Elpino2.4 miles12
Woodland3.5 miles12
Spence4.5 miles9
Long Branch5.2 miles12
Oak Grove (historical)6.0 miles9
Union Hill6.5 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331321. 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.