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Liberty Hill, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bridgeboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31744. The Survey maps it on the Bridgeboro quadrangle.

Liberty Hill within Worth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Liberty Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,503 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 28 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 burning140
Railroad operations and maintenance30
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3

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 1999Natural8.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WORTH-011
3 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2011Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WORTH-009
20 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WORTH-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty Hill in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Liberty Hill$35,000A brief EF0 tornado damaged the roofs of three mobile homes along Bridgeboro Anderson City Road.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down along Bridgeboro-Anderson Road.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-A tree was blocking the roadway on Bridgeboro Anderson City Road about 2 miles west of Evergreen Road.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-A tree was blown down at Bridgeboro Anderson City Road and Mobley Road.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill-A tree was blown down at Bridgeboro Anderson City Road and Highway 133.

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Livingston1.1 miles10
Bridgeboro1.9 miles10
Pritchetts2.7 miles9
Parkerville2.7 miles10
Indian Cove (historical)3.4 miles10
Alfords4.3 miles10
Groveland Estates4.4 miles10
Gintown (historical)4.9 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326369. 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.