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Gobblers Hill, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cusseta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31805. The Survey maps it on the Glen Alta quadrangle.

Gobblers Hill within Chattahoochee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

284 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Gobblers Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,227 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 56 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 burning118
Arson/incendiarism56
Railroad operations and maintenance41
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking14
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony5

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
7 September 2005Debris and open burning10 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism80 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-CHATTAHOOCHEE-001
4 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021MARION004
3 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021MARION003
3 September 2020Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021MARION002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattahoochee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gobblers Hill in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGobblers Hill$1,000The Chattahoochee County 011 center reported a tree blown down along Firetower Road.

Every storm recorded in Chattahoochee 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
Manta0.4 miles13
Ida Vesper2.8 miles13
Christopher3.2 miles13
Cusseta3.3 miles25
Renfroe3.4 miles7
Halloca (historical)5.7 miles25
Jamestown6.4 miles25
Central Springs7.7 miles25

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 Q122541233The 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 331830. 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.