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Forrester, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31763. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg quadrangle.

Forrester within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

343 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 343 fires within 5 miles of Forrester between 1992 and 2020, burning about 652 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 60 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 burning195
Arson/incendiarism60
Misuse of fire by a minor43
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LEE-012
6 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burning17 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LEE-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Forrester: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Leesburg Sand Co MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forrester in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
January 2026Thunderstorm WindForrester$2,000A blown transformer occurred near Publix along Highway 19.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindForrester$2,000Three transformers were blown near the Publix.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindForrester$1,500The Lee county 911 call center reported two trees down in the southern portion of the county. Monetary damage was estimated.
January 2013Tornado (EF0)Forrester$1,000The public reported a cone shaped funnel cloud near the junction of Forrester Pkwy and Highway 19. The funnel cloud likely briefly touched down as a weak EF0 tornado with winds between 70-80 mph across Lover's Lane Road extending near Pine Ridge and Southill Dr. Trees were blown down along the funnel's track and a roaring sound was heard at a residence. This also was consistent with an area of rotation on radar. Monetary damage was estimated.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindForrester$500Trees were blown down near Long Dirt Road. This was reported by the public via the WALB-TV facebook page.
December 2018Flash FloodForrester-Flash flooding on Pelham Drive affected structures.
December 2018Flash FloodForrester-Flash flooding affected structures on Lovers Lane Road.
January 2026HailForrester-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Palmyra1.9 miles10
Century1.9 miles10
Nutview (historical)2.9 miles10
Stocks3.8 miles10
Stocks (historical)3.9 miles10
Byne Crossroads4.5 miles10
Beloit4.8 miles10
Oakland5.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331747. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.