Cobbville, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31544. The Survey maps it on the Workmore quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 Workmore quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
543 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 543 fires within 5 miles of Cobbville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,445 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 99 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 | 302 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 99 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 63 |
| Natural | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Smoking | 5 |
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 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020TELFAIR010 |
| 6 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-TELFAIR-008 |
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-TELFAIR-014 |
| 30 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-TELFAIR-021 |
| 30 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 116 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-TELFAIR-013 |
| 29 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-TELFAIR-011 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cobbville in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2003 | Hail | Cobbville | - | The Jacksonville Post Office relayed a report of quarter size hail. The hail lasted up to 15 minutes. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workmore | 2.6 miles | 7 | |
| Neily | 3.5 miles | 7 | |
| China Hill | 7.0 miles | 7 | |
| Jacksonville | 7.3 miles | 8 | |
| Milan | 8.1 miles | 8 | |
| Sharon | 8.6 miles | 7 | |
| Cedarpark | 8.6 miles | 8 | |
| Temperance | 8.9 miles | 7 |
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 Cobbville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q54888677 | 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 355209. 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.




