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Hunters, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Newington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30467. The Survey maps it on the Hunters quadrangle.

Hunters within Screven County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Hunters between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,013 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 37 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/incendiarism37
Equipment and vehicle use23
Natural12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2010Debris and open burning3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-030
7 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-028
7 September 2010Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-029
7 September 2010Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-031
7 September 2010Debris and open burning3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-032
7 September 2010Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-033
6 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunters in 2 storm reports in 2007: 2 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHunters$60,000The Public and Law Enforcement reported at least 100 trees down near the Hunters community along Highway 21...Airport Road...and Beacon Road between 323 pm and 345 pm.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHunters$10,000Widespread trees and power lines were reported down over southern Screven county near Hunters and Newington Georgia.

Every storm recorded in Screven 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
Middleground1.3 miles16
Sheppards1.4 miles16
White Hill2.1 miles16
Captolo3.2 miles16
Eureka Springs (historical)3.7 miles16
Green Hill4.4 miles16
Farmdale4.4 miles16
Newington5.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332043. 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.