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Glory, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Alapaha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31622. The Survey maps it on the Tenmile Bay quadrangle.

Glory within Berrien County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Glory between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,895 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 20 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 burning145
Arson/incendiarism20
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism14 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BERRIEN015
5 August 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2001Natural71 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-BERRIEN-001
26 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2007Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Natural3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

5 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glory in 5 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGlory-The 511GA reported tree limbs on SR 520 Eastbound at Lawton McMillian Road with the right lane blocked.
April 2024Flash FloodGlory-Glory Road was flooded and washed out.
August 2023Flash FloodGlory-Flash flooding on Highway 520 in both directions resulted in two out of four lanes blocked.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGlory-A tree was blown down on Wyclif Roberts Road.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGlory-A tree was blown down across Highway 82.

Every storm recorded in Berrien 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
Alapaha4.4 miles8
Bannockburn7.3 miles8
Gladys8.6 miles8
Weber9.0 miles8
Enigma10.3 miles9
Nashville12.4 miles8
Cottle14.6 miles8
Allenville16.9 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331821. 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.