Chenube, 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 39842. The Survey maps it on the Dawson quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Chenube 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
1973 USGS Dawson quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Chenube (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 886 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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	82
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	10
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
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
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TERRELL-004
20 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TERRELL-003
2 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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	1.6 miles	7
Oakville	2.3 miles	7
Worner (historical)	2.4 miles	7
Yeomans	3.1 miles	7
Cottondale	3.9 miles	7
Chambliss	4.0 miles	7
Belmont (historical)	4.3 miles	7
Pleasant Hill	4.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 344630. 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.