Pebble City, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sale City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31730. The Survey maps it on the Cotton quadrangle. It stands 364 feet above sea level.

Pebble City within Mitchell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Cotton quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Pebble City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 720 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 17 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	128
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Arson/incendiarism	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
9 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	7.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MITCHELL-022
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MITCHELL-023
20 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MITCHELL006
17 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MITCHELL-013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mitchell 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
Sale City	3.2 miles	10
Akridge (historical)	3.3 miles	8
Laney	3.8 miles	8
Adelaide	4.0 miles	10
Saco (historical)	4.3 miles	8
Greenough	4.9 miles	10
Hinsonton	5.4 miles	8
Cotton	6.0 miles	8

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 Pebble City	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7158507	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 332627. 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.