Leliaton, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Willacoochee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31650. The Survey maps it on the Kirkland quadrangle.

Leliaton within Atkinson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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
1972 USGS Kirkland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

298 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 298 fires within 5 miles of Leliaton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,433 acres in total. 16 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	199
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	18
Natural	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	1

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	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	6.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Atkinson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leliaton in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2008: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Leliaton	-	A tree was blown down on Highway 82 between Pearson and Willacoochee.
February 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Leliaton	-	Large trees blown down in Kirkland along Sunnyside Church Road.

Every storm recorded in Atkinson 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
Gracys Station (historical)	1.5 miles	8
Willacoochee	3.0 miles	8
Oberry	4.2 miles	8
Kirkland	4.6 miles	8
Pearson	7.7 miles	8
Henderson Still	9.6 miles	8
Axson	14.1 miles	7
Stokesville	15.0 miles	7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122553638

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 316762. 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.