Meridian, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Darien census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31305. The Survey maps it on the Ridgeville quadrangle. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Meridian within McIntosh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1921 USGS Darien quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Ridgeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Ridgeville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Ridgeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

558 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 558 fires within 5 miles of Meridian between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,206 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 238 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
Arson/incendiarism	238
Debris and open burning	217
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Natural	16
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	7

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 1999	Natural	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MCINTOSH-008
29 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCINTOSH-012
27 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MCINTOSH007
23 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MCINTOSH-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meridian in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	$1,500	A spotter reported a few trees blown down on Highway 99 in Meridian.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	$1,000	A trained weather spotter reported power lines down in Meridian, Georgia.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	$1,000	Law Enforcement reported a utility pole down on Highway 99 in Meridian, Georgia.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	$100	Several 3 to 4 inch tree limbs were reported down.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	-	The McIntosh County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Rossville Road.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Meridian	-	The McIntosh County 911 Call Center reported a tree down at the intersection of Swamp Road and Georgia Highway 99.
June 2013	Hail	Meridian	-	The public reported quarter size hail near Meridian.
June 2013	Hail	Meridian	-	The media relayed a report of 1.75 inch hail near Meridian.
April 2011	Hail	Meridian	-	The public reported penny size hail and small limbs down.
June 2008	Hail	Meridian	-	Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported in Meridian, Georgia.

Every storm recorded in McIntosh 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
Carnigan	1.5 miles	16
Valona	2.6 miles	16
Ardick	3.0 miles	16
Ridgeville	3.4 miles	16
Cedar Point	3.5 miles	16
Crescent	4.0 miles	15
Ashintilly	4.3 miles	16
Doboy (historical)	4.5 miles	16

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.

Wikipedia article on Meridian	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058906	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 318042. 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.