Luke, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Blakely census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39823. The Survey maps it on the Columbia quadrangle.

Luke within Early County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Luke between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,042 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 24 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	153
Arson/incendiarism	24
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
30 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Early County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luke in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Luke	$1,500	The public reported that a few trees were blown down across Early county. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2024	Flash Flood	Luke	-	One of two lanes was blocked by flooding on Highway 62 westbound at Mile Post 7.7, just west of Luke Station Road.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Luke	-	A tree was blown down on Luke Station Road.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Luke	-	A tree was blown down onto Cedar Springs Road.

Every storm recorded in Early 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
Rock Hill	1.8 miles	9
Freeman	3.7 miles	9
Blakely	4.4 miles	8
Sawhatchee	4.5 miles	9
Pleasant Hill (historical)	4.5 miles	8
McLendon (historical)	4.6 miles	8
Hilton	4.9 miles	9
Centerville	7.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332280. 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.