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Cecil, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Adel-Sparks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31627. The Survey maps it on the Cecil quadrangle. 284 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Cecil within Cook County

Population over time

2 figures

Cecil fell from 286 to 284 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.

YearPeople Change
2010286
2020284-2 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

496 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 496 fires within 5 miles of Cecil between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,966 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 33 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 burning327
Equipment and vehicle use79
Arson/incendiarism33
Natural13
Smoking13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7

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 2002Debris and open burning3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LOWNDES-011
8 September 2007Debris and open burning23 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burning9.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-COOK-021
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1994Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cecil: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

9 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cecil in 9 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 8 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCecil$2,000Minor structural damage was reported along Cowart Dr in association with a downburst.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCecil$2,000A tree and a power line were blown down.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindCecil$2,000A tree and a power line were blown down along Harris Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCecil$1,000The public reported via social media that at least 2 large pecan trees were blown down in Cook county.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCecil$1,000A tree was blown down across Shady Grove Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2024Flash FloodCecil-A few dirt roads were flooded in Cook county.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCecil-Trees were blown down in Cecil on Highway 41 and across the railroad tracks at Fellowship Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCecil-A tree was blown down onto Old Coffee Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCecil-A tree was blown down onto Fellowship Road.

Every storm recorded in Cook 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
Fellowship1.9 miles8
Heartpine (historical)4.0 miles8
Pine Valley5.2 miles8
Greggs5.4 miles8
Jerusalem (historical)5.7 miles8
Adel6.5 miles8
Sparks8.7 miles8
Barnesdale9.8 miles8

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 CecilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q952947The 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 331347. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.