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Moniac, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the St. George census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31562. The Survey maps it on the Moniac quadrangle.

Moniac within Charlton 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Moniac between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,592 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 42 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/incendiarism42
Natural30
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
4 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service05-02-BRENSON FIRE
12 September 1999Natural25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresFlorida Forest Service05-02-BAXTER GRADE FIRE-1239
30 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moniac in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2006: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2002Thunderstorm WindMoniac$10,000Many large trees down across power lines.
April 2006HailMoniac-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Charlton 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
Boggy3.9 miles11
Clarking5.7 miles13
Saint George9.9 miles13
Toledo12.2 miles12
Stokesville12.5 miles13
Stanley Landing19.1 miles11
Traders Hill20.8 miles11
Ferry Landing21.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332407. 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.