Church Hill, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Buena Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31803. The Survey maps it on the Church Hill quadrangle.

Church Hill within Marion County

On record in Church Hill

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Shiloh-Marion Baptist Church and Cemeterylisted 1984 · 0.2 miles away

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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Church Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

191 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Church Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 608 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 21 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	116
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Arson/incendiarism	21
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021WEBSTER002
29 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-MARION-001
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WEBSTER-004
18 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MARION-009
17 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Church Hill in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Church Hill	$1,000	Report of a tree down at Hwy 41 S and Hay Rd.
June 2012	Hail	Church Hill	-	The Marion County Emergency Manager reported that quarter sized hail fell south of Highway 30 between Buena Vista and Preston.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Hoggs (historical)	3.1 miles	8
Draneville	4.5 miles	7
Pineville	7.5 miles	11
Berginville	8.7 miles	11
Putnam	9.4 miles	8
Doyle	9.9 miles	8
Zellobee	10.0 miles	11
Elmview	10.3 miles	11

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 Church Hill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888673	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 331400. 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.