Pineora, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Guyton-Springfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31312. The Survey maps it on the Guyton quadrangle.

Pineora within Effingham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1919 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1939 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Guyton quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

378 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 378 fires within 5 miles of Pineora between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,753 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 79 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	214
Arson/incendiarism	79
Natural	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
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
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1994	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1993	Natural	7.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Effingham County

Storms near this place

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pineora in 12 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2024	Lightning	Pineora	1 hurt	Effingham County Fire Department reported a lightning strike at a home on Taylor Drive near Guyton. The lightning strike resulted in one injury and also caused a small fire in the attic.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Pineora	$4,000	A trained spotter reported multiple trees down along live oak trail.
January 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Pineora	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down several large limbs.
February 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Pineora	$500	Tree was reported down near the intersection of Low Ground Rd.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Pineora	-	An Effingham County emergency manager reported a tree down along Highway 17 near Sunrise Drive.
June 2023	Tornado (EF1)	Pineora	-	A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team confirmed an EF-1 tornado with an estimated maximum wind speed of 90 mph south of Tusculum, GA in Effingham County occurring from 627 PM to 635 PM. The tornado began near the intersection of Newton Road and Old Louisville Road with several trees snapped and uprooted. The tornado then tracked through the northern side of Guyton, GA with mostly tree damage, then moved southeast along the northern side of Little McCall Road where it snapped and uprooted multiple trees and removed a small amount of roof fascia and shingles from a couple of homes. The tornado then lifted before reaching Courthouse Road where no damage was observed. Paralleling the tornado track to the south was significant damage caused by straight-line winds from the rear flank downdraft, where snapped and uprooted trees were observed.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Pineora	-	A tree was reported down at the intersection of 119 South and Honey Ridge Road.
June 2018	Hail	Pineora	-	A trained spotter reported quarter size hail and gusty winds just west of Guyton.
February 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Pineora	-	A National Weather Service storm survey team confirmed a tornado that tracked from southeastern Bulloch County to southwest Effingham County in Georgia on 02/09/2017. The tornado tracked east-southeast approximately 9 miles southeast of Brooklet, GA to Pineora, GA. The following information occurred once the tornado crossed into Effingham County from Bulloch County.\|\|The tornado crossed the Ogeechee River from Bulloch County into Effingham County, where most damage was in the EF1 range. Hundreds of snapped pine and oak trees were observed along the path of the tornado. Some minor structural damage was found to a few homes just south of Rt 119, near Elkins Cemetery Road. This damage was due to large trees falling on the homes and carports. Finally, after nearly 10 miles of damage and destruction, the tornado lifted just east of Highway 17 in Pineora, GA.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Pineora	-	Effingham County dispatch reported multiple trees and power lines down across Highway 17 between Gracen Road and Keith Road. Another tree was down across Gracen Road at Old Louisville Court.
March 2011	Hail	Pineora	-	A trained weather spotter reported pea to quarter size hail 2 miles west-northwest of Guyton, Georgia.
June 2008	Hail	Pineora	-	A Guyton Post Office employee reported penny size hail 3 miles west of Guyton, Georgia.

Every storm recorded in Effingham 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
Marlow	1.2 miles	16
Guyton	3.4 miles	16
Doswell	5.3 miles	16
Rahns	6.1 miles	16
Spring Branch	6.5 miles	16
Blandford	6.8 miles	16
Springfield	7.3 miles	16
Tusculum	7.6 miles	16

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 Q12895464

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 332683. 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.