Lorane, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Macon West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31210. The Survey maps it on the Bolingbroke quadrangle.

Lorane within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1956 USGS Bolingbroke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Bolingbroke quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

251 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Lorane between 1992 and 2019, burning about 777 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 21 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	161
Arson/incendiarism	21
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Recreation and ceremony	9
Smoking	6
Natural	6

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
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MONROE-004
21 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MONROE-004
20 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lorane in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
November 2002	Tornado (F0)	Lorane	$400,000	A National Weather Service disaster survey team from the National Weather Service office in Peachtree City, Georgia, along with Bibb county emergency management officials confirmed that a short-lived F0 tornado touched down in extreme northern Bibb county in the Cross Creek and Sleepy Creek subdivisions which straddle the Bibb-Monroe county line. The tornado was estimated to have a path length of 1/2 to 3/4 mile and a path width of 1/4 mile or less. Numerous trees, mostly pines, were either broken off or uprooted. Some of the trees landed on homes and some shingles were also peeled off by the wind. However, damage to homes was minor. Most of the damage occurred in the Wesleyan Road, Riverside Road, and Bass Road areas. A couple of roads were blocked by downed trees.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lorane	$16,000	The Bibb County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and a few power lines blown down across the county from the far north just southeast of Bolingbroke, across the city of Macon.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lorane	$7,000	The Macon Telegraph reported that strong straight-line winds blew down a number of trees and power lines throughout the county, including the city of Macon. At least 1500 people were left without power during the early morning hours. Winds gusts of 48 mph were measured at the Macon airport south of the city of Macon, but greater wind gusts were estimated elsewhere.
May 2005	Hail	Lorane	-	NBC TV in Macon reported nickel-sized hail west of Macon, while numerous reports of penny to nickel-sized hail were received from the public on the west and north side of Macon, including the Lake Wildwood area.

Every storm recorded in Bibb 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
Rivoli Plantation	1.4 miles	12
Woodcrest	1.7 miles	12
Billingwood	2.7 miles	12
Lakeview	2.7 miles	11
Wesleyan Hills	2.8 miles	12
Whitehouse Plantation	2.8 miles	12
Castlegate	2.9 miles	12
Tara	3.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326376. 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.