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Cox, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Darien census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31331. The Survey maps it on the Cox quadrangle.

Cox within McIntosh County

On record in Cox

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

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.

Fires near this place

229 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Cox between 1992 and 2020, burning about 980 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 153 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
Arson/incendiarism153
Debris and open burning48
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
6 September 1997Debris and open burning8.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1994Arson/incendiarism9.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2006Natural30 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MCINTOSH-005
24 August 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cox in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2019Thunderstorm WindCox-The McIntosh County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Heron Bridge Road.
March 2012HailCox-Trained Spotter reported quarter-sized hail 3 miles east southeast of Cox.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindCox-Several trees and large limbs were down.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindCox-Numerous trees down countywide
May 2000HailCox-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McIntosh 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
Credit Hill5.1 miles13
Townsend6.2 miles13
Ardick6.9 miles16
Huxford7.7 miles13
Eulonia9.0 miles13
Darien9.0 miles15
Carnigan9.1 miles16
Darien Heights9.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 313069. 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.