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East Crisp, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cordele census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31015. The Survey maps it on the Penia quadrangle.

East Crisp within Crisp 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

377 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 377 fires within 5 miles of East Crisp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,397 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 47 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 burning218
Arson/incendiarism47
Equipment and vehicle use34
Railroad operations and maintenance29
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural8
Smoking4

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
9 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CRISP003
6 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CRISP-005
4 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1992Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CRISP004
24 September 2011Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-CRISP-008
24 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crisp County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Crisp in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Crisp-Report of numerous trees down along Old Hatley Rd near Hwy 90.
June 2016HailEast Crisp-A Crisp County Sheriff's Deputy reported quarter-sized hail along U.S. Highway 280 east of Cordele.
July 2012HailEast Crisp-The Crisp County 911 Center relayed a report from a Sheriff's deputy of hail up to the size of quarters in East Crisp.

Every storm recorded in Crisp 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
Musselwhite1.1 miles7
Listonia1.2 miles7
Penia1.4 miles7
McKenzie2.1 miles7
Williford (historical)2.7 miles7
Tremont3.9 miles8
Hatley5.3 miles7
Lamb Town5.3 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122569641The 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 331616. 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.