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Holt, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Holt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31798. It stands on Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ocilla East quadrangle.

Holt within Irwin 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.

Fires near this place

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Holt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 854 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 16 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 burning186
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism16
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremony3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020IRWIN004
18 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Irwin County

Storms near this place

24 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holt in 24 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHolt$25,000An oak tree fell and crushed a parked car.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHolt$10,000A tree was blown down on a house on Holt Road. Damage cost was estimated.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHolt$2,000A power line was blown down on Lilac Road.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindHolt$1,000Trees were blown on Holt Road.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindHolt$1,000Trees were blown on Satilla Road.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindHolt$1,000A tree was blown down on Lily Road.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindHolt$1,000Trees were blown down on Satilla Road.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHolt-Trees were blown down south of Highway 32.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHolt-Trees were blown down near Holt.
May 2024Flash FloodHolt-A piece of Bethlehem Church Road was flooded and washed out.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHolt-Trees were blown down on Mcleod Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHolt-A tree was blown down on Bethlehem Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHolt-A tree was blown down on Lax Highway.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHolt-A couple of trees were blown down in the Holt community.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHolt-Multiple trees were blown down throughout the southeast portion of the county.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHolt-A tree was blown down onto Pansey Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHolt-A tree was blown down at Satilla Church Road near Lotus Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHolt-A tree was blown down onto Evergreen Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindHolt-A tree was blown down onto Daisy Road.
October 2021Flash FloodHolt-Several roads were flooded and closed in eastern Irwin county due to flooding in the Osierfield area.
March 2020FloodHolt-Blue Bird Road was flooded and closed.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHolt-A tree was blown down at LAX Highway and Lilac Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHolt-Multiple trees were blown down in the eastern part of Irwin county.
May 2022HailHolt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Irwin 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
Osierfield5.3 miles8
Ocilla5.3 miles8
Wray5.4 miles7
Lax8.6 miles9
Riverbend9.4 miles9
Mystic10.0 miles8
Pinetta11.0 miles8
Irwinville12.8 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332014. 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.