Clyo, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Guyton-Springfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31303. The Survey maps it on the Springfield North quadrangle. It stands 72 feet above sea level.

Clyo within Effingham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1919 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1939 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Springfield North quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

195 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Clyo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 920 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 41 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	110
Arson/incendiarism	41
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
9 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-EFFINGHAM-001
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-EFFINGHAM-013
6 August 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-EFFINGHAM-004
19 August 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1993	Arson/incendiarism	24 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Effingham County

Storms near this place

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clyo in 27 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 19 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2024	Flash Flood	Clyo	$100,000	An Effingham County emergency manager reported around 10 roads washed out across the county. The washed out roads were listed at the following locations: 1100 Block of Arnsdorff Lane, Springfield-Egypt Road and Tarver Pond Drive, Turkey Branch Road, Lorenzo Hurst Road, Old Louisville Road and Riverside Drive, Herbert Kessler Road and Blue Jay Road, Corinth Church Road. The 300 Block of South Ash Street was also damaged with the roadbed completely washed out.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	$15,000	A emergency manager reported extensive tree damage, downed power lines and several damaged porches along Tuckasee King Road, King Boulevard and Morgan Cemetery Road about 3 miles north of Clyo, Georgia.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	$4,500	A 911 call center reported power line poles down on Clyo-Kildare and Reedsville Road.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	$2,250	Law enforcement reported a tree down on a power line along Fletcher Lane.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	$2,000	The public reported damage to a shed from wind approximately 70 miles per hour.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	$1,000	The Effingham 911 Call Center reported a tree down due to thunderstorm outflow along Highway 119 North near Clyo.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	$1,000	A trained weather spotter reported one tree down on power lines along Clyo-Kildare Road, 5 miles northwest of Clyo, Georgia.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	$1,000	Trees down near the intersection of Highway 119 and Laurel Hill Rd.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	$500	A tree was reported down on Whitaker Road.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	$500	Large tree limbs were reported down off of Corinth Church Road.
May 2024	Hail	Clyo	-	Effingham County Emergency Management relayed a report of ping pong ball sized hail in Clyo.
May 2024	Hail	Clyo	-	Penny to quarter sized hail was reported at the Dollar General store.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	-	A firefighter reported trees down on Highway 119 near Clyo.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	-	The Effingham County 911 Call Center reported a tree down at the intersection of Morgan Circle and Ollie Morgan Road.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	-	Effingham County dispatch reported numerous trees down across the town of Clyo.
March 2013	Hail	Clyo	-	The Effingham County 911 Call Center reported half dollar size hail in Clyo, Georgia.
August 2012	Hail	Clyo	-	The public reported nickel sized hail in Clyo. The report was relayed by the National Weather Service office in Columbia, South Carolina.
March 2008	Hail	Clyo	-	A trained weather spotter reported nickel sized hail in Clyo, Georgia.
March 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	-	Twelve trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds along highway 119 between Clyo and Springfield.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	-	Trees down.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	-	Several trees down 2 miles south of Clyo.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	-	Power lines down.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	-	Trees down.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Clyo	-	Powerlines down
April 1998	Hail	Clyo	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Clyo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Effingham 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
Berryville	3.9 miles	16
Haddonville	3.9 miles	15
Lorenzo	6.6 miles	16
Bethel	6.7 miles	16
Oaky	7.1 miles	15
Stillwell	7.4 miles	16
Shawnee	7.5 miles	16
Springfield	8.1 miles	16

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 Clyo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058891	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 312778. 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.