BlockGreenough, Georgia
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It lies in ZIP code area 31730. The Survey maps it on the Sale City quadrangle. It stands 292 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Baconton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Sale City quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
286 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 286 fires within 5 miles of Greenough between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,430 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 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 | 179 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020MITCHELL006 |
| 17 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenough in 9 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Greenough | $100,000 | A tornado touched down near the intersection of Faircloth road and Tuton Road in Mitchell county. It snapped a stand of large pine trees before moving east southeast towards a residence along Tuton road. At the residence, it snapped and uprooted several large pine trees, uplifted and destroyed a car port, and slightly moved a tiny home off its foundation, but did not produce significant damage to it. The very evident path continued to a residence along Palm road where it snapped a few pine trees across the field from the house. The tornado continued east towards Bobwhite Way where a stand of large pine trees and other miscellaneous trees were uprooted or snapped along the road. The path of the tornado was very evident through a Plantation where a line of large pine trees were snapped or uprooted until Georgia highway 93. A residence along Georgia highway 93 had a front porch lifted off the house, as well as many large trees snapped or uprooted along the property. The tree damage continued towards the Mitchell and Colquitt county line where the tornado likely lifted. This tornado was rated an EF1 with maximum winds around 90 mph. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenough | $5,000 | Numerous power outages occurred due to severe storms with downed and sagging power lines. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenough | $5,000 | Trees were blown down with roof damage to a mobile home near Highway 112 and Greenough Road. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenough | - | A tree was blown down on Stagecoach Road. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenough | - | A tree was blown down along Highway 112 near Greenough Road. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenough | - | A tree was blown down on Highway 112 north of Jerusalem Church Road. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenough | - | A tree was blown down near Stagecoach Road. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenough | - | A tree was blown down on Highway 112 just north of Greenough. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenough | - | A tree was blown down across the road near 2501 Jerusalem Church Road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flint | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Adelaide | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Lester | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Pebble City | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Baconton | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Sale City | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| DeWitt | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Akridge (historical) | 7.6 miles | 8 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Greenough | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4846126 | 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 326307. 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.