Penia, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cordele census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31015. The Survey maps it on the Penia quadrangle.

Penia within Crisp 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 Penia quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

399 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 399 fires within 5 miles of Penia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,295 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 52 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	233
Arson/incendiarism	52
Equipment and vehicle use	43
Railroad operations and maintenance	27
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Recreation and ceremony	10
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	4

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 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CRISP003
6 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CRISP-005
4 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CRISP004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crisp County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Penia in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Penia	-	Reports of trees and powerlines down along hwy 90 near 300 roughly 2 miles south of town.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Penia	-	Report of trees down in wooded area along Penia Rd near Old Penia Rd and Penia Rd N.
June 2019	Hail	Penia	-	The Crisp County Sheriff's Department reported dime size hail east of Cordele, near Penia.
May 2005	Hail	Penia	-	The Crisp County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail on Cemetary Road in the northeast portion of the county.

Every storm recorded in Crisp 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
Musselwhite	1.4 miles	7
East Crisp	1.4 miles	7
Listonia	2.2 miles	7
McKenzie	3.3 miles	7
Williford (historical)	3.8 miles	7
Tremont	3.9 miles	8
Lamb Town	4.1 miles	8
Cordele	4.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332634. 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.