China Hill, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Milan census division. The Survey maps it on the China Hill quadrangle.

China Hill within Telfair 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 Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS China Hill quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

327 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of China Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 959 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 47 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	186
Arson/incendiarism	47
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Natural	24
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TELFAIR-008
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TELFAIR-011
28 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TELFAIR-010
26 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Telfair County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names China Hill in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	China Hill	$30,000	The Telfair County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down in the vicinity of Barkely Williams Road and Highway 117 in the China Hill area. Several small sheds and pontoon boats were overturned. Also, numerous trees were blown down north of Jacksonville on highway 319.
November 2015	Tornado (EF1)	China Hill	$25,000	A NWS survey team determined that a tornado occurred in southern Telfair county. The EF1 tornado with estimated maximum winds around 94 MPH began along Raymond Bloodworth Barkley West Road between County roads 54 and 52 near China Hill and travelled 1.63 miles east northeast before ending along State Highway 117 near China Hill Road east of China Hill. The tornado snapped 15 to 20 hardwood trees and caused structural damage to a building lifting the roof off. No injuries were reported. [11/02/15: Tornado #1, County #1-1, EF1, Telfair, 2015:009].
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	China Hill	$6,000	The Telfair County 911 center reported numerous trees blown down across the county with the highest concentration near Workmore.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	China Hill	$1,000	Report of tree down on Edison Ray Rd off of Hwy 117.

Every storm recorded in Telfair 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
Sharon	3.4 miles	7
Temperance	4.1 miles	7
Jacksonville	6.2 miles	8
Cobbville	7.0 miles	7
Workmore	9.6 miles	7
Neily	9.9 miles	7
Milan	11.4 miles	8
Cedarpark	15.6 miles	8

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 China Hill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888669	The 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 355151. 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.