Coverdale, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ashburn-Sycamore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31714. The Survey maps it on the Ashburn quadrangle.

Coverdale within Turner 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Ashburn quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

289 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 289 fires within 5 miles of Coverdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,366 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 68 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	165
Arson/incendiarism	68
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Natural	8
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
8 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-TURNER-006
8 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2001	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WORTH-001
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WORTH003
25 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	37 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WORTH-003
25 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-TURNER-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Turner County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coverdale in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2020	Flood	Coverdale	-	Flooding was reported on Cofer Road.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Coverdale	-	A tree was down near Cannon Rd and Coverdale Highway.
March 2024	Hail	Coverdale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Turner 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
Five Points	2.4 miles	10
Hobby	2.6 miles	7
High Springs (historical)	5.1 miles	10
Sycamore	5.4 miles	7
Inaha	6.0 miles	8
Ashburn	6.4 miles	7
Bethel	8.3 miles	8
Worth	8.8 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331466. 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.