Ohoopee, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vidalia-Lyons census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30436. The Survey maps it on the Ohoopee quadrangle. 29 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Ohoopee within Toombs County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Ohoopee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Vidalia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

362 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 362 fires within 5 miles of Ohoopee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 850 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 87 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 burning	166
Arson/incendiarism	87
Equipment and vehicle use	46
Recreation and ceremony	12
Natural	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	9

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1999	Natural	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TATTNALL-012
30 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TATTNALL011
26 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-TOOMBS-003
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TOOMBS013
18 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019TOOMBS004
18 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Toombs 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ponderosa	2.1 miles	10
Elton (historical)	5.4 miles	9
Lyons	5.7 miles	10
Santa Claus	6.0 miles	10
New Branch	7.0 miles	9
Johnson Corner	9.0 miles	9
South Thompson	9.4 miles	9
Center	10.1 miles	9

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 Ohoopee	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65087559	The 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 332562. 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.