Prentiss, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Baxley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31513. The Survey maps it on the Pine Grove quadrangle.

Prentiss within Appling 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Pine Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

621 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 621 fires within 5 miles of Prentiss between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,549 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 31 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	412
Misuse of fire by a minor	77
Arson/incendiarism	31
Smoking	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Natural	25
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11

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 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-APPLING-026
7 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020APPLING013
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020APPLING012
4 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-APPLING-006
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-APPLING-017
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appling County

Storms near this place

23 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prentiss in 23 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 heavy rain, 4 hail, 1 flood. 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
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Prentiss	$2,000	Trees and power lines were blown down near Plant Hatch. The cost of damage was unknown but it was estimated so the event could be reported in Storm Data. The time of damage was based on radar.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Prentiss	$1,000	Asbury Church Road has some trees down. The cost of damage was estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Prentiss	$1,000	Altamaha School Road has some trees blown down. The cost of damage was estimated.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Prentiss	-	Widespread trees were blown down across the northern tier of the county. The time of damage was based on radar.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Prentiss	-	Trees were blown down onto power lines. The sparks caused a small fire.
October 2021	Heavy Rain	Prentiss	-	A rain gauge near Baxley measured 2.29 inches of rainfall since early morning.
October 2021	Heavy Rain	Prentiss	-	An observer measured 2.15 inches of rainfall in less than 2 hours.
August 2020	Heavy Rain	Prentiss	-	The CWOP site NW of Baxley measured 3.20 inches between 0730 pm to 0910 pm.
August 2019	Heavy Rain	Prentiss	-	A station measured 1.20 inches in 15 minutes.
August 2019	Heavy Rain	Prentiss	-	An observed measured 2.25 inches of rainfall in about 50 minutes.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Prentiss	-	A tree was blown down across Spring Branch Road and King Drive and another tree was blown down on Spring Branch Road and Carter Cemetery Road.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Prentiss	-	Trees and power lines were blown down along U.S. Highway 1 and Spring Branch Road, as well as along Pat Lewis Road, Falcon Drive and Satilla Church Road. The time of damage was based on radar.
December 2018	Flood	Prentiss	-	Two roads were flooded off of Doyle Road.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Prentiss	-	Trees and power lines were blown on Morris Landing Road.
May 2014	Hail	Prentiss	-	At least quarter size hail was reported 8 miles north of Baxley on U.S. Highway 1. The driver received a flat tire due to driving over the hail.
January 2012	Hail	Prentiss	-	Golfball size hail was reported 9 miles north of Baxley.
August 2011	Heavy Rain	Prentiss	-	Piney Bluff Road was washed out and closed due to heavy rainfall. Radar estimated that around 3 inches in one hour fell near the road.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Prentiss	-	Trees were blown down across Piney Bluff Road in the northern section of the county.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Prentiss	-	Trees were blown down 4 miles east of Highway 1 near Plant Hatch.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Prentiss	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees along Sellers Road.
October 2008	Hail	Prentiss	-	The U.S. Highway 1 Convenience Store said a customer along Hatch Parkway North reported penny size hail. The time of the report was based on radar.
May 2008	Hail	Prentiss	-	The Appling County Emergency Management Agency reported dime to quarter size hail near Sellers Road and U. S. 1 six miles north of Baxley.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Prentiss	-	Power lines were blown down along Zoar Road which ignited several fires.

Every storm recorded in Appling 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
Bassville	1.6 miles	8
Baker Homes	2.2 miles	8
Cook Heights	2.2 miles	8
Clay Homes	2.3 miles	8
Warrick Homes	2.7 miles	8
Speer Homes	2.7 miles	8
Holt Homes	2.7 miles	8
Baxley	2.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332756. 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.