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Pabst, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Perry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31069. It stands on Limestone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Perry East quadrangle.

Pabst within Houston 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

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Pabst between 1992 and 2020, burning about 611 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 22 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 burning122
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism22
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural11
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony6

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
6 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burning8.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burning5.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Pabst: 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kaolin, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Clinchfield Mine & Cement MillClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clinchfield QuarryLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Clinchfield QuarryIronOccurrence
Perry Quarry & Lime PlantCalciumProducer
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerAlluvium
Bear Creek Road QuarryKaolinOccurrence
Clinchfield MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kathleen QuarryKaolinProducer
Perry Quarry No.2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pabst in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2014: 2 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
October 2014Thunderstorm WindPabst$250The Houston County 911 Center reported a tree down near the intersection of State Highway 247 South and Kovac Road.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPabst$250The Houston County 911 Center reported that one tree was blown down near U.S. Highway 129 near the Houston/Pulaski county line.
December 2005HailPabst-The public reported quarter-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Sand Bed1.2 miles11
Clinchfield1.9 miles11
Lea Glen2.4 miles11
Willow Run3.6 miles11
Devonwood3.7 miles11
Hayneville3.9 miles11
Kathleen4.0 miles11
Fox Ridge Estates4.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332590. 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.