Emit, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brooklet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30458. The Survey maps it on the Denmark quadrangle.

Emit within Bulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1921 USGS Brooklet quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Brooklet quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Denmark quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Emit between 1992 and 2020, burning about 638 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 16 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	135
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BULLOCH012
22 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BULLOCH011
21 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BULLOCH005
12 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2008	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bulloch County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emit in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2015: 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Emit	$10,000	Trees and Powerlines were reported down across Bulloch county.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Emit	-	The Bulloch County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 67 and Emit Grove Road.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Emit	-	An emergency manager reported a tree down on Highway 67 near mile marker 12.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Emit	-	Bulloch County dispatch reported a tree down across Highway 67 near the intersection of Emit Grove Church Road.

Every storm recorded in Bulloch 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
Enal (historical)	3.5 miles	16
Denmark	4.2 miles	14
Grimshaw	4.4 miles	14
Pretoria	4.6 miles	14
Brooklet	4.8 miles	14
Somerset	4.9 miles	17
Eagle Court	4.9 miles	17
Sherwood Forest	5.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331662. 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.