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Crescent, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 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 Shellman Bluff quadrangle. 838 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Crescent within McIntosh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

649 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 649 fires within 5 miles of Crescent between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,675 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 293 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/incendiarism293
Debris and open burning248
Equipment and vehicle use30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking10

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
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MCINTOSH-009
8 September 1999Natural8.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-MCINTOSH-003
30 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MCINTOSH-012
27 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2005Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MCINTOSH007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crescent in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCrescent$4,000Law enforcement reported that a large tree fell on a car at the Pelican restaurant in Crescent, Georgia. No injuries were reported.
June 2008LightningCrescent$3,000Law enforcement reported that a lightning strike caused power lines to start on fire in the Crescent area.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCrescent$1,000An emergency manager reported one tree down along the southern portion of Johnson Road.
April 2020HailCrescent-Broadcast media reported nickel size hail.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCrescent-The public reported a large tree down in a residential back yard near the intersection of Cedar Point Road and Georgia Highway 99. Damage was sustained to a boat and storage shelter.
June 2010HailCrescent-A post office employee reported dime to penny size hail.
June 2006HailCrescent-Hail reported at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCrescent-Large limbs and power lines were down throughout the community.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCrescent-Numerous trees down.
May 2006HailCrescent-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
Cedar Point1.4 miles16
Bellville Point1.5 miles15
Fairhope2.2 miles13
Valona2.5 miles16
Pine Harbor2.6 miles13
Eulonia3.5 miles13
Brailsford (historical)3.5 miles15
Meridian4.0 miles16

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 CrescentAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5184312The 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 355371. 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.