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Mobley Crossing, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hartford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31036. The Survey maps it on the Hawkinsville quadrangle.

Mobley Crossing within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

559 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 559 fires within 5 miles of Mobley Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,498 acres in total. 13 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 burning409
Equipment and vehicle use53
Smoking30
Arson/incendiarism21
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony7

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
9 September 2000Debris and open burning2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-PULASKI-009
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2009Debris and open burning5.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mobley Crossing in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2021Flash FloodMobley Crossing-The Emergency Manager reported water over the roadway on Cochran Highway near Hawkinsville. Radar estimates indicate that between 1.5 and 3 inches of rain had fallen over the area in a short period of time, resulting in the flash flooding.
June 2010HailMobley Crossing-The public reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Hartford3.4 miles11
Hawkinsville4.4 miles11
Goose Neck5.7 miles8
Tippetts5.8 miles11
Browndale9.6 miles10
Wallace9.9 miles8
Finleyson14.2 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122540077The 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 326401. 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.