Lulaville, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fitzgerald census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31750. The Survey maps it on the Queensland quadrangle.

Lulaville within Ben Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Queensland quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Queensland quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

692 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 692 fires within 5 miles of Lulaville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,485 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 68 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	437
Arson/incendiarism	68
Equipment and vehicle use	65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	44
Misuse of fire by a minor	30
Natural	23
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	8

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 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BEN HILL006
9 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BEN HILL-006
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021BEN HILL009
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BEN HILL-005
5 September 1997	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 Ben Hill County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lulaville in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 4 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
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lulaville	$5,000	There were several downed trees and a few downed power lines in Ben Hill County.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lulaville	$4,000	Many trees and power lines were blown down mainly north of Fitzgerald. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lulaville	-	A tree was blown down.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lulaville	-	A tree was blown down.

Every storm recorded in Ben Hill 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
Queensland	1.6 miles	8
Westwood	3.9 miles	8
Fitzgerald	4.2 miles	8
Bowens Mill	4.9 miles	8
Ashton	6.6 miles	8
Red Bluff	12.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 335391. 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.