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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.

Cobbville 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.

Fires near this place

543 since 1992

Regional 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 burning302
Arson/incendiarism99
Equipment and vehicle use63
Natural35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking5

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TELFAIR010
6 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TELFAIR-008
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TELFAIR-014
30 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TELFAIR-021
30 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined116 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TELFAIR-013
29 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TELFAIR-011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Telfair County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2003HailCobbville-The Jacksonville Post Office relayed a report of quarter size hail. The hail lasted up to 15 minutes.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Workmore2.6 miles7
Neily3.5 miles7
China Hill7.0 miles7
Jacksonville7.3 miles8
Milan8.1 miles8
Sharon8.6 miles7
Cedarpark8.6 miles8
Temperance8.9 miles7

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 CobbvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888677The 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.