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Metcalf, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Thomasville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31792. The Survey maps it on the Metcalf quadrangle.

Metcalf within Thomas County

On record in Metcalf

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Metcalf between 1992 and 2019, burning about 243 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning20
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
27 August 2016Debris and open burning4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-THOMAS-001
16 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2000-THOMAS-135
7 May 2011Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-THOMAS-092
28 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019THOMAS007
14 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-THOMAS-025
12 May 2011Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-THOMAS-095
7 April 2006Debris and open burning31 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 April 2004Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thomas County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Metcalf in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMetcalf$5,000Numerous trees were blown down near the intersection of Metcalf Road and Horne Cemetery Road. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
February 1998LightningMetcalf$5,000Lightning struk a mobile home igniting several small fires inside the home. An adjoining word porch was set ablaze as the current blasted a twelve-inch hole in the floor.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMetcalf$2,000A few trees and power lines down. Reported by the Thomas County Sheriff.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindMetcalf$1,000A single tree was blown down at the intersection of U.S Highway 19 and Glasgow Road with no other damage reported in the county.
February 2013Thunderstorm WindMetcalf$1,000Two trees were blown down in the southern part of the county. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2024Flash FloodMetcalf-Twelve Mile Post Road going west between Highway 19 and the Florida state line had water over the road.
April 2024Flash FloodMetcalf-Highway 19 and New Hope Road had all lanes flooded.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMetcalf-There were a few reports of trees and power lines down in Thomas county.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMetcalf-A tree was blown down onto Magnolia Drive.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMetcalf-Multiple trees were blown down in southern Thomas county south of Thomasville.
April 2012HailMetcalf-Quarter sized hail was reported at the intersection of Highway 19 and New Hope Road.
April 2021HailMetcalf-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thomas 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
Roddenberry (historical)3.3 miles8
Beverly (historical)5.8 miles8
Glasgow6.2 miles8
Pebble Hill7.6 miles12
Mount Olive (historical)8.7 miles12
Theodore Heights8.7 miles8
Fletcherville9.1 miles8
Antioch (historical)9.1 miles7

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 MetcalfAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6823336The 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 318056. 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.