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Kildare, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Shawnee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30446. The Survey maps it on the Kildare quadrangle.

Kildare within Effingham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Kildare between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,303 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 60 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 burning124
Arson/incendiarism60
Natural17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-EFFINGHAM-014
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SCREVEN-034
19 September 2010Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-EFFINGHAM-016
15 September 2000Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-SCREVEN-009
11 September 2010Arson/incendiarism20 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-EFFINGHAM-015
9 August 2001Debris and open burning42 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-EFFINGHAM-002
5 August 2002Arson/incendiarism2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-EFFINGHAM-008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Effingham County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kildare in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 WindKildare$1,500Three trees were reported down in Kildare along Highway 21 North.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindKildare$1,500Several trees were reported down on Springfield Road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKildare$1,250Law enforcement reported power lines down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindKildare$500One tree was reported down at the intersection of Highway 21 North and Clyo-Kildare Road.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindKildare$500One tree was reported down near the intersection of Highway 21 north and Green Morgan Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindKildare-Multiple trees were reported down and blocking the roadway on Oliver Kildare Road between Pryor Road and Simpson Town Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindKildare-Effingham County dispatch reported two trees down on Clyo-Kildare Road.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindKildare-Effingham County dispatch reported a tree down on power lines along Clyo-Kildare Road.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindKildare-Effingham County dispatch reported a tree down on Pryor Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindKildare-Law enforcement reported 6 trees down at Pryor Road and Oliver Kildare Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindKildare-The Effingham County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on a power line at the intersection of Highway 21 and Clyo-Kildare Road.
March 2008Funnel CloudKildare-A trained weather spotter reported a funnel cloud 2 miles east of Oliver, Georgia.
March 2001Thunderstorm WindKildare-Few trees down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindKildare-Trees down.
May 2007HailKildare-no account filed
November 1997HailKildare-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Effingham 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
Ardmore3.0 miles16
Oaky3.5 miles15
Shawnee4.8 miles16
Egypt5.1 miles16
Lorenzo7.9 miles16
Tusculum9.8 miles16
Bethel9.9 miles16
Clyo10.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332146. 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.