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Racepond, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Folkston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31537. The Survey maps it on the Fort Mudge quadrangle.

Racepond within Charlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Racepond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,236 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 15 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 burning56
Natural42
Railroad operations and maintenance33
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking2

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 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-WARE-005
19 September 2018Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019CHARLTON003
11 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CHARLTON009
4 August 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHARLTON-010
30 August 1997Natural1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1993Natural8.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlton County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Racepond in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 heavy rain, 5 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2025Thunderstorm WindRacepond$3,000Trees And Powerlines Were Reported Down In Race Pond, GA. Time of damage Was Estimated By Radar.
March 2025Heavy RainRacepond-A mesonet station TT331 Oke-Nw measured 3.74 | inches of rainfall. Rain began around 9 AM. | About 2.25 inches of rain fell between 10 AM | and 12 PM.
March 2025Heavy RainRacepond-A RAWs site in the Okefenokee NWR measured daily rainfall of 2.31 inches since 7 am local time.
August 2025Heavy RainRacepond-Mesonet station TT331 Oke-Nw reported 2.15 inches of rain in one hour.
August 2025Heavy RainRacepond-RAWS station TT331 Oke-Nw reported rainfall 4.27 inches from 4 PM to 6 PM EDT.
July 2021Heavy RainRacepond-A mesonet site 11 miles NNW of Steven Foster State Park in the Okefenokee NWR measured 3.02 inches of rain from TS Elsa.
June 2017Heavy RainRacepond-The RAWs station in the NW Okefenokee Swamp measured a daily rainfall total of 2.83 inches as of 4 pm local time.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindRacepond-Trees and power lines were blown down across the county. Several wildfires were ignited by the downed power lines.
January 2004Thunderstorm WindRacepond-Tin roof blown off Big John Trailers building on US Highway 1. Tin roof blown off outbuilding and swing set onto a car on Carter Circle Rd. Pine trees blown down onto power lines on US Highway 1.
February 2006HailRacepond-no account filed
May 2006HailRacepond-no account filed
March 2000HailRacepond-no account filed
March 2000HailRacepond-no account filed
June 1998HailRacepond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Charlton 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
Cypress Siding2.7 miles10
Petersons (historical)5.9 miles10
Winokur6.3 miles8
Mattox6.3 miles10
Newell7.1 miles10
Uptonville7.8 miles10
Prescott (historical)9.1 miles17
Paxton11.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332778. 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.