Emmalane, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the South Jenkins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30442. The Survey maps it on the Millen quadrangle.

Emmalane within Jenkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1920 USGS Millen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Millen quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Millen 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 Millen quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

295 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 295 fires within 5 miles of Emmalane between 1992 and 2020, burning about 789 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 65 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	164
Arson/incendiarism	65
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-JENKINS-004
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-JENKINS-005
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jenkins County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emmalane in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2012: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Emmalane	1 hurt, $50,000	A Tornado touched down near the community of Emmalane, Georgia around 733 AM EDT southwest of the intersection of US-25 and Old Savannah Road. The Tornado continued northeast 1.7 miles and had a maximum width of 1200 yards. The observed damage indicated that an EF-1 Tornado had occurred. The maximum sustained winds with the Tornado were estimated at 95 mph. Damage occurred to a mobile home where the roof was uplifted and the structure shifted from its foundation. There was also significant damage to nearby sheds and trees.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Emmalane	$2,000	Two trees were reported down near the intersection of Highway 25 and highway 121.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Emmalane	$2,000	Several trees were reported down, one of which was blocking a road.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Emmalane	$1,500	Law enforcement reported three trees down, one on Grady Drive, one on Route 121, and another on Edgar Lane, approximately 5 miles south-southwest of Millen, Georgia.
September 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Emmalane	$1,000	Law Enforcement reported a tree and a power line down on West Old Savannah Road, 5 miles west-southwest of Millen, Georgia.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Emmalane	-	Law enforcement reported sections of Cotton Avenue, North Masonic Street and Park Street in Millen closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Jenkins 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
Butts	2.8 miles	7
Cushingville (historical)	3.4 miles	7
South Millen (historical)	3.4 miles	15
Bennetts Landing	3.8 miles	7
Millen	4.0 miles	15
Thrift	5.2 miles	7
Rogers	5.7 miles	7
Paramore Hill	5.8 miles	15

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 Q122593707

The 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 313938. 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.