Kingsboro, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waverly Hall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31811. It stands on Palmetto Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cataula quadrangle.

Kingsboro within Harris 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Cataula quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Ellerslie quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Cataula quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Ellerslie quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Kingsboro between 1992 and 2019, burning about 484 acres in total. 7 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	84
Arson/incendiarism	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	7
Smoking	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
26 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HARRIS001
2 August 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2000	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-HARRIS-012
3 July 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingsboro in 1 storm report in 2011: 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 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Kingsboro	$5,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City confirmed that a brief EF0 tornado touched down approximately five miles southeast of Hamilton and tracked east-northeast just 0.43 mile before lifting. The maximum path width was 50 yards with maximum wind speeds of 75 mph. Ten trees along the path of the tornado were topped. In addition, a gazebo and storage shed were destroyed by the tornado. While there was widespread damage to trees and power lines across much of the county, other than the damage noted along this brief path, all of the other damage was the result of strong thunderstorm wind gusts and not a tornado.\|\|[04/15-04/16/11: Tornado #1, County #1-1, EF0, Harris, 2011:007].

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Bayard (historical)	3.1 miles	16
Hamilton	3.4 miles	10
Cataula	3.7 miles	15
Turntime Crossroads	4.5 miles	15
Rehobeth	4.7 miles	16
Mulberry Grove	5.6 miles	16
Ossahatchie	6.2 miles	15
Ellerslie	6.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332151. 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.