Exley, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Rincon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31326. The Survey maps it on the Port Wentworth quadrangle.

Exley within Effingham County

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.

1942 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Port Wentworth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Port Wentworth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Port Wentworth quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

370 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 370 fires within 5 miles of Exley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,115 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 101 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	172
Arson/incendiarism	101
Misuse of fire by a minor	32
Railroad operations and maintenance	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Smoking	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
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	78 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-EFFINGHAM-002
20 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-EFFINGHAM-011
16 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-EFFINGHAM-017

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Effingham County

Storms near this place

17 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Exley in 17 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Exley	$3,250	An emergency manager reported 2 trees and power lines down near the intersection of Highway 30 and Kelly Drive.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Exley	$3,000	Law Enforcement reported trees and power lines down along Coldbrook Court near Goshen Road, 6 miles south-southwest of Rincon, Georgia.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Exley	$3,000	Law Enforcement reported trees and power lines down along Hodgeville Road, 5 miles south-southwest of Rincon, Georgia.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Exley	$1,500	A trained weather spotter reported a couple of trees down across power lines along Kolic Helmey Road, 8 miles east-northeast of Eden, Georgia.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Exley	$1,250	The media reported power lines down near the intersection of Highway 30 and Pecan Lane.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Exley	$1,000	Effingham Fire Department reported a tree down at the intersection of Noel C Conway Road and Kelly Drive.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Exley	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down a power line at the intersection of Highway 21 and McCall Road.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Exley	$1,000	Law enforcement reported one tree down on Goshen Road.
July 2010	Lightning	Exley	$1,000	Broadcast Media relayed a report of lightning knocking a tree down on a power line along Hodgeville Road near the Effingham Chatham county line and causing a small fire, 2 miles west-northwest of Meinhard, Georgia.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Exley	$500	Law enforcement reported a tree down on Kollic Helmey Road near Hodgeville Road, 4 miles northwest of Meinhard, Georgia.
July 2009	Flash Flood	Exley	$500	Law Enforcement reported a road closure due to flooding near the intersection of McCall Road and Highway 21 near Rincon, Georgia. The road was closed for between 30 and 45 minutes.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Exley	$500	Law Enforcement reported power lines down along Crystal Drive, one mile east-northeast of Coldbrook, Georgia.
May 2025	Hail	Exley	-	Ping pong ball sized hail was reported near Highway 21 at Old Augusta Road.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Exley	-	Law enforcement reported a power line down at the intersection of Hodgeville Road and Triumph Drive.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Exley	-	A Effingham County emergency manager reported a tree down and through the window of a home on Exley Loop, a second tree down on Dogwood Drive, a third tree down on a carport crushing a car, a fourth tree down on another home, and damage to a canopy on Oak Street. The public also reported roof shingles blown off a home and damage to two pear trees at a residence on Hampton Court in Paddleford Plantation.
August 2020	Hail	Exley	-	The public reported penny size hail.
May 2014	Hail	Exley	-	The public reported dime to quarter sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Effingham 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
Coldbrook	0.9 miles	16
Silverwood Plantation	1.6 miles	16
Goshen Villa	1.6 miles	16
Willowpeg	2.2 miles	16
Blandford	2.9 miles	16
Rincon	3.5 miles	16
Rahns	5.5 miles	16
Birds	6.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331679. 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.