Owensboro, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rochelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31079. The Survey maps it on the Rochelle quadrangle.

Owensboro within Wilcox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Rochelle quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

315 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 315 fires within 5 miles of Owensboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,299 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 33 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	210
Arson/incendiarism	33
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Natural	12
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
8 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WILCOX-002
8 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WILCOX-026
25 September 2017	Debris and open burning	6.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-BEN HILL-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owensboro in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Owensboro	$75,000	A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service Peachtree City, GA forecast office concluded that the same supercell which spawned the tornado west of Owensboro continued to cause damage across eastern Wilcox county in the form of damaging winds. Wind gusts were estimated from 75 to 100 mph from four miles northeast of Owensboro to three miles south of Abbeville. At the intersection of Bramblewood and Perry Roads, four miles northeast of Owensboro, wind gusts estimated near 100 mph flipped over a manufactured home and uprooted numerous large trees. Then further east, four miles south of Abbeville, wind gusts estimated at 70 mph ripped a tin roof off a house and blew a truck off a road and into a ditch.
May 2008	Hail	Owensboro	$25,000	The Wilcox County Sheriff's Office reported golf ball-sized hail in Owensboro. The National Weather Service cooperative observer for Wilcox county relayed reports of golf-ball sized hail four miles east of Owensboro and of quarter-sized hail four miles north of Owensboro. In both instances the ground was covered with hail. Brown Farm Pecan Orchard north of Owensboro reported some damage to leaves on the trees from the hail.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Owensboro	$12,000	The Wilcox County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and power lines blown down from south of Rochelle along Highway 233 to south of Abbeville along Highway 129.
December 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Owensboro	$5,000	A survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, GA concluded that a tornado touched down approximately two miles west of Owensboro in southeast Wilcox county. The tornado moved rapidly northeast and lifted approximately 0.5 mile to the west-northwest of Owensboro. The tornado path width was estimated to be approximately 100 yards wide. The roof was ripped off an old dairy shed and a cinder block attached to the shed was completely destroyed. While the tornado lifted shortly after touching down, wind damage, consistent with 70 to 100 mph wind speeds, continued northeast across the county toward Abbeville.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Owensboro	$3,000	The Middle Georgia EMC reported a few power outages across the county, mainly in the south and southwest portion, mostly caused by downed limbs. The Wilcox County 911 Center reported that a couple of trees were blown down in Pitts as well.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Owensboro	$2,000	The Wilcox County 911 Center reported that at least a dozen trees were down around Owensboro near Georgia Highway 233.
August 2007	Hail	Owensboro	-	The Rochelle Police Department observed quarter-sized hail just outside of Owensboro on Georgia Highway 233.

Every storm recorded in Wilcox 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
Rochelle	5.3 miles	7
Kramer	5.8 miles	7
Sibbie	6.7 miles	7
Double Run	7.0 miles	7
Pitts	7.6 miles	7
Browning	8.7 miles	7
Forest Glen	9.8 miles	8
Statham Shoals	9.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326444. 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.