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Raybon, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Nahunta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31553. The Survey maps it on the Hortense quadrangle.

Raybon within Brantley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

341 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 341 fires within 5 miles of Raybon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,114 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 68 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 burning148
Arson/incendiarism68
Natural44
Equipment and vehicle use20
Recreation and ceremony17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Smoking3

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burning18 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BRANTLEY012
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BRANTLEY-011
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BRANTLEY-010
25 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BRANTLEY-013
24 September 2019Debris and open burning14 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BRANTLEY018
23 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BRANTLEY015

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brantley County

Storms near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raybon in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2002Thunderstorm WindRaybon$1,000Large trees and power lines down.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindRaybon-A tree was blown down onto a power line near Nahunta. Power outages occurred in Nahunta.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindRaybon-A tree and power lines including a utility pole were blown down near Raybon Road West of Highway 301.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRaybon-A couple of trees were blown down on Hoke Road. The time of damage was based on radar.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindRaybon-A large tree was blown down onto a home and car. A tree was also blown down over the road near Raybon Road and West and Oak Grove.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindRaybon-Trees were blown down along Raybon Rock Road. The time was based on radar imagery.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindRaybon-Trees and power lines down on Trudie Road just south of Hortense.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindRaybon-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindRaybon-no account filed
August 2003Heavy RainRaybon-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindRaybon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brantley 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
Trudie2.6 miles14
Burton Terrace4.0 miles17
Prosperity4.1 miles17
Nahunta4.1 miles17
Lulaton4.9 miles17
Hortense5.1 miles14
Manson (historical)5.4 miles14
Needmore6.2 miles14

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 Q122546643The 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 326481. 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.