Hebardville, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Waycross census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31501. The Survey maps it on the Waycross East quadrangle.

Hebardville within Ware County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Waycross East quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

690 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 690 fires within 5 miles of Hebardville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,047 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 78 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	403
Arson/incendiarism	78
Railroad operations and maintenance	67
Misuse of fire by a minor	40
Natural	32
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Recreation and ceremony	17
Smoking	8

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
9 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PIERCE-015
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ware County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hebardville: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mcneal Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Minchew Mine No. 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Minchew Sand Co Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pafford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pafford Pit No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Alluvium

Every working recorded in Ware County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hebardville in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
September 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Hebardville	$40,000	Numerous gravestones were lofted and displaced along the damage path. A church at 2353 Carswell Avenue had roof damage where at leas 20% of the roof was lifted off of the structure. The cost of damage was unknown but estimated for Storm Data.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Hebardville	$2,000	Power lines were blown down and a transformer blew at 3040 Cherokee Street. Time of damage was based on radar. Cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion in Storm Data.
May 2022	Lightning	Hebardville	$1,000	Lightning struck a tree and created a brush fire that burned about 1/8 of an acre before extinguished. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for Storm Data.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hebardville	$1,000	A large tree limb was blown down onto power lines off of Slash Pine Road. The time of event was based on radar imagery. The cost of damage was unknown but estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hebardville	-	Trees and power lines were blown down on the west side of Waycross. The time of damage was based on radar imagery.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hebardville	-	Large pecan trees were blown down on Albany Avenue near the Intersection of Highway 82.

Every storm recorded in Ware 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
Winona Park	1.3 miles	8
Sunnyside	1.4 miles	7
Deenwood	1.6 miles	8
Waycross	2.0 miles	7
Jamestown	2.2 miles	8
Garlington Heights Housing Project	2.4 miles	8
Emerson Park	3.9 miles	8
Waltertown	4.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 315292. 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.