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Chula, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Chula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31733. The Survey maps it on the Chula quadrangle. It stands 384 feet above sea level.

Chula within Tift 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.

Photographs

3 photographs, 1977

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia; Zema Doss, Chula, Georgia, yard decorations
Royal Singing Convention, Mystic, Georgia; Zema Doss, Chula, Georgia, yard decorations
Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin), 1940- (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Charlie and Kitty Hill, Chula, Georgia
Charlie and Kitty Hill, Chula, Georgia
Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin), 1940- (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Commerical buildings in Ashburn, Sylvester, Tifton, Chula, and Ocilla, Georgia
Commerical buildings in Ashburn, Sylvester, Tifton, Chula, and Ocilla, Georgia
Marshall, Howard W, 1977. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

439 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 439 fires within 5 miles of Chula between 1992 and 2019, burning about 953 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 54 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 burning273
Arson/incendiarism54
Equipment and vehicle use38
Smoking23
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony5

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 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TIFT-010
9 September 1997Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burning17 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TIFT-007
5 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tift 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 Chula: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Unnamed Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer1985

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chula in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindChula2 hurt, $500,000Thunderstorm winds severely damaged two mobile homes, a storage house and downed several large trees in the Pleasant Grove Mobile Home Park on Rigdon Altman Road near United States Highway 41. Two people were slightly injured from shattered window glass. Tift county Emergency Management Officials estimated damage at $100,000.
March 2007Tornado (EF1)Chula$600,000The EF-1 tornado touched down west of Chula. It damaged 20 homes, of which seven were heavily damaged and 13 suffered minor damage. The tornado also snapped and uprooted numerous trees before it crossed into southeastern Turner County.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindChula$3,000A Tift County 911 dispatcher reported numerous trees and power lines down across the northern portion of the county.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindChula$1,000Trees were blown down in Chula.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindChula$1,000Tift county 911 dispatch reported a tree down on Wiley Branch Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindChula-Trees were down along Chula Brookfield Rd.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindChula-A tree was blown down in a yard along Chula Brookfield Road going towards Chula.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindChula-A trained spotter measured a wind gust of 70 mph with a handheld anemometer.
April 2021Flash FloodChula-The public reported street flooding via mping.
April 2021Flash FloodChula-Water was across the east end of Rigdon Aultman Road at Highway 41 North.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindChula-A tree was blown down.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindChula-Several trees were down north of Tifton on North Carpenter Road. Additional trees were down on Brighton Road and over near Old Ocilla Road.
March 2019HailChula-Quarter to ping pong ball size hail accumulated up to an inch on the side of the road on I-75 between exits 67 and 69.
December 2019Thunderstorm WindChula-A tree was blown down along Highway 125 near Tifton.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindChula-A tree was blown down on Chula Brookfield Road about one mile east of I-75.
March 2009HailChula-Penny to nickel sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Tift 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
Sunsweet1.7 miles8
Hoganville (historical)3.1 miles8
Pebblebrook5.1 miles9
Brighton5.8 miles8
Hillsdale6.3 miles9
Harding6.5 miles8
Ferry Lake6.9 miles9
Tifton7.1 miles9

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 ChulaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20585364The 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 355165. 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.