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Monteith, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Port Wentworth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31407. It stands on Little Hearst Branch. The Survey maps it on the Port Wentworth quadrangle.

Monteith within Chatham 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.

Fires near this place

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Monteith between 1992 and 2020, burning about 793 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 43 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 burning44
Arson/incendiarism43
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural7
Smoking2

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
8 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1993Naturalunder an acreSavannah RefugesHWY-17
11 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSavannah RefugesCHEVY VAN FIRE
1 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSavannah RefugesKANASKI FIRE
8 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSavannah Refuges170 FIRE #2
8 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSavannah Refuges170 FIRE #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Monteith: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fortner PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chatham County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monteith in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013Thunderstorm WindMonteith$5,000Partial canopy collapse at the Circle K gas station on Highway 21.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMonteith-Social media pictures showed damage to a gas station awning. Traffic signals were also down in the intersection of Augusta Road and Old Richmond Road. Also, several trees down in the area.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindMonteith-A Chatham County emergency manager reported a tree down on EMD Boulevard.

Every storm recorded in Chatham 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
Meinhard1.1 miles16
Mulberry Grove1.8 miles16
O'Leary2.2 miles16
Port Wentworth Junction2.5 miles16
Port Wentworth2.6 miles16
Starland Park4.4 miles15
Garden City4.9 miles15
Pooler5.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326402. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.