Chambliss, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Parrott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39877. The Survey maps it on the Parrott quadrangle.

Chambliss within Terrell 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Parrott quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Chambliss between 1992 and 2019, burning about 323 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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	98
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
28 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-TERRELL-004
25 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WEBSTER-002
25 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WEBSTER-003
2 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-WEBSTER-002
24 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-TERRELL-004
21 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WEBSTER-001
2 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WEBSTER001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Terrell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chambliss in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 tornado. 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
April 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Chambliss	$300,000	An EF1 tornado touched down just west of County Line Road. It raced eastward across the road and lifted just before crossing State Road 520. Along its brief path, several mobile homes and barns were destroyed, a few frame homes were damaged, and many trees and power lines were down. A woman escaped injury when her mobile home was blown off its foundation.

Every storm recorded in Terrell 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
Parrott	2.4 miles	7
Chenube (historical)	4.0 miles	7
Worner (historical)	4.9 miles	7
Cottondale	5.7 miles	7
Oakville	6.3 miles	7
Yeomans	7.1 miles	7
Pleasant Hill	8.0 miles	7
Belmont (historical)	8.3 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355105. 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.