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Pineboro, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Moultrie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31771. It stands on Reedy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pineboro quadrangle.

Pineboro within Colquitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

314 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Pineboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,025 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 24 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 burning217
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use15
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking10
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-COLQUITT-010
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020COLQUITT013
3 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-COLQUITT-004
29 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2018Debris and open burning2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019COLQUITT002
24 September 2018Debris and open burning6.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019COLQUITT001
24 September 2010Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-COLQUITT-009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colquitt County

Storms near this place

6 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pineboro in 6 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 2024Funnel CloudPineboro-A trained spotter called and sent in pictures of a funnel cloud.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPineboro-Large tree branches around 5 inches in diameter and a small tree were blown down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPineboro-Power lines were blown down along Baldy Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPineboro-A large oak tree was blown down across Highway 37 east of David Newton Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPineboro-A tree was blown down on Highway 37 near RL Sears Road.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPineboro-The Sunbelt Ag Expo WeatherSTEM site measured a wind gust of 65 mph.

Every storm recorded in Colquitt 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
Barbers4.0 miles9
Ellenton4.5 miles8
Kirkwood4.7 miles9
Weldon (historical)4.8 miles9
Cool Springs5.2 miles8
South Moultrie5.5 miles9
Bayboro (historical)5.6 miles8
Ganor6.0 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122543424The 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 332681. 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.