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Chastain, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Coolidge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31738. The Survey maps it on the Chastain quadrangle.

Chastain within Thomas County

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

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Chastain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 986 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 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 burning178
Arson/incendiarism35
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2

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
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020THOMAS008
22 September 1995Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-COLQUITT-003
19 September 1995Debris and open burning5.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thomas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chastain in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindChastain-A tree was blown down on GA-202 in far northern Thomas county near the border with Colquitt county.
September 2024Flash FloodChastain-Water was flowing over the roadway near Rocky Ford Road and Eric Hall Road.

Every storm recorded in Thomas 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
Coolidge3.7 miles9
Merrillville6.4 miles8
Enon7.0 miles9
Hansell7.2 miles8
Quality7.6 miles8
Ochlocknee7.7 miles12
Touraine (historical)7.7 miles8
Fredonia8.3 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 ChastainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888663The 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 331377. 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.