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Colesburg, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodbine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31569. It lies near Walker Swamp Island. The Survey maps it on the Woodbine quadrangle.

Colesburg within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

201 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 201 fires within 5 miles of Colesburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 595 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 22 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 burning74
Natural38
Equipment and vehicle use38
Arson/incendiarism22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony3

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 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2011Natural175 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-CAMDEN-010
27 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden County

Storms near this place

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colesburg in 14 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2001Tornado (F0)Colesburg$2,000Few trees damaged.
July 2023HailColesburg-Quarter size hail was observed near the intersection of Colesburg Tompkins Road and US Highway 17.
June 2020HailColesburg-Penny size hail was observed near Colesburg Tomkins Road.
June 2018HailColesburg-Penny size hail observed along I-95 near Woodbine.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindColesburg-Strong gusty winds were estimated between 55-60 mph near Colesburg Tompkins Road and Highway 17 south of Woodbine.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindColesburg-A spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
September 2013Heavy RainColesburg-There was about 6 inches of standing water in yards and driveways in the town of Colesburg.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindColesburg-Trees were blown down along the off-ramp of I-95 to Woodbine near the Satilla Bluff Road.
October 2008HailColesburg-Penny to dime size hail was reported in Colesburg. The time was based on radar.
May 2015HailColesburg-no account filed
April 2004HailColesburg-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindColesburg-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindColesburg-no account filed
May 2001HailColesburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Camden 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
Billyville1.8 miles18
Plantation Point2.0 miles18
Runnymeade2.6 miles18
Scarlet2.6 miles17
Woodbine2.8 miles18
Halifax3.0 miles18
Seals3.5 miles17
Tompkins4.1 miles17

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 ColesburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12889052The 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 355239. 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.