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Nebula, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Warm Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31830. It stands on Cooler Branch. The Survey maps it on the Shiloh quadrangle.

Nebula within Meriwether County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

255 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Nebula between 1992 and 2020, burning about 714 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 32 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 burning147
Arson/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking10
Natural10
Railroad operations and maintenance6

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 2019Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MERIWETHER004
9 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-HARRIS-001
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TALBOT-005
6 September 2009Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Nebula: 4 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin. 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
Warm Springs BauxiteKaolinPast Producer1910, 1915
ProspectAluminumProspect
Red Bauxite OutcropAluminumOccurrence
Republic MineAluminumPast Producer
Smith Prospect No. 1AluminumProspect
Smith Prospect No. 2AluminumProspect
Turner ProspectAluminumProspect

Every working recorded in Meriwether County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nebula in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 tornado. 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
October 2014Tornado (EF1)Nebula$10,000NWS Storm Survey team found a tornado touched down just southwest of Shiloh in Harris County and traveled northeast for almost 6 miles across northwest Talbot County and southern Meriwether County. A home on the south face of Pine Mountain off Skyline Drive southwest of Manchester lost part of its roof and a large shed was destroyed. A few other homes along the path had minor damage with approximately 100 trees snapped or uprooted. EF1 damage was indicated with maximum wind speeds estimated around 100 MPH and a path width of 200 yards. [10/14/14: Tornado #1, County #3-3, EF1, Harris-Talbot-Meriwether, 2014:011].

Every storm recorded in Meriwether 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
Bussey Crossroads2.5 miles22
Warm Springs2.8 miles22
Bulloch Crossroads2.8 miles22
Manchester3.1 miles22
Bullochville (historical)3.2 miles22
Routons Crossroads3.8 miles22
Loftin4.8 miles22
Chalybeate Springs5.2 miles22

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 Q122561482The 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 332474. 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.