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Pinetta, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ocilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31774. The Survey maps it on the Ocilla West quadrangle.

Pinetta within Irwin 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.

Fires near this place

267 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Pinetta between 1992 and 2019, burning about 950 acres in total. 8 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 burning190
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking4

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 1999Smoking1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burning5.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020IRWIN010
29 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-IRWIN-004
25 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020IRWIN008
20 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Irwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pinetta: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium

Every working recorded in Irwin County

Storms near this place

8 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinetta in 8 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 2020FloodPinetta-Crepe Myrtle Road was flooded and closed.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindPinetta-Several trees were down on Five Bridge Road south of Ocilla.
April 2020Tornado (EF1)Pinetta-Brief tornado touched down in western Irwin County. The tornado initially touched down north of Five Bridge Road, crossed Five Bridge Road near Palm Road and ended near Palm Road and Peach Road. Many trees were snapped. The tornado was rated EF1 with max winds around 90 mph.
March 2019HailPinetta-Quarter size hail was reported in the Pleasure Lake area.
March 2019HailPinetta-Quarter size hail was estimated via a photo from Tifton Highway.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindPinetta-A tree was blown down between Ocilla and Tifton near Highway 319.
December 2019Thunderstorm WindPinetta-Trees were blown down on Pinetta Road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPinetta-A tree was blown down on Bugle Lane at Highway 319.

Every storm recorded in Irwin 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
Mystic2.3 miles8
Irwinville4.0 miles8
Ocilla5.7 miles8
Waterloo6.2 miles8
Riverbend8.7 miles9
Lands Crossroads8.8 miles8
Holt11.0 miles7
Abba11.3 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326472. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.