BlockPebble Hill, Georgia
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Thomasville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31792. It stands on Wards Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pine Park quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Cairo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Pine Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
95 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Pebble Hill between 1992 and 2018, burning about 540 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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 | 60 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-THOMAS-001 |
| 4 June 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 June 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-THOMAS-112 |
| 2 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-THOMAS-107 |
| 18 June 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Olive (historical) | 1.9 miles | 12 | |
| Theodore Heights | 2.0 miles | 8 | |
| Dewey City | 2.3 miles | 8 | |
| Homestead Park | 2.4 miles | 8 | |
| Fletcherville | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| Thomasville | 2.8 miles | 8 | |
| Booker Heights | 2.9 miles | 8 | |
| McLoughlin Heights | 3.3 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343790. 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.