Rebecca, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rebecca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31783. The Survey maps it on the Rebecca quadrangle. 208 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 351 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresRebecca fell from 246 to 208 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 246 | |
| 2010 | 187 | -59 (-24%) |
| 2020 | 208 | +21 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1974 USGS Rebecca quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
3 photographs, 1977Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Stanley, David, 1942- (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Stanley, David, 1942-, 1977. Library of Congress
Stanley, David, 1942-, 1977. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
220 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Rebecca between 1992 and 2020, burning about 829 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 16 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 | 150 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1993 | Natural | 3.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-TURNER-010 |
| 3 August 2006 | Natural | 4.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rebecca in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Rebecca | $100,000 | A tornado briefly touched down just along S. Washington Street southeast of Rebecca in Turner County. The tornado caused significant damage to several chicken houses before quickly dissipating. This tornado was rated an EF1 with max winds estimated at 90 mph. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rebecca | $10,000 | An abandoned building in Rebecca collapsed on three sides due to strong winds. Damage was estimated. |
| March 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rebecca | $5,000 | Several large trees toppled by thunderstorm winds also downed several power lines. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rebecca | $3,000 | Several downed trees and power lines were reported on Legg Road. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rebecca | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rebecca | $2,000 | Some trees and power lines down. Reported by the Turner County EMA. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rebecca | $1,000 | A couple of trees were blown down along Waterloo Rebecca Highway and Cherokee Lane. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rebecca | - | Trees were blown down along Highway 107. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rebecca | - | A tree was blown down onto Shady Lane. |
| January 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rebecca | - | A few trees were blown down along Waterloo-Rebecca Road. |
| March 2020 | Flood | Rebecca | - | Flooding was reported on Shady Lane. |
| March 2020 | Flood | Rebecca | - | Flooding was reported on Highway 112 north of Rebecca. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Rebecca | - | Golf ball size hail was reported southwest of Rebecca. Quarter to golf ball size hail accumulated on Highway 112. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rebecca | - | Trees were blown down on Scott Road. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rebecca | - | Trees were blown down on Shady Lane. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Rebecca | - | Quarter size hail. Reported by the Turner County EMA. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Rebecca | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Rebecca | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Rebecca | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Springs (historical) | 3.5 miles | 7 | |
| Felder (historical) | 4.3 miles | 7 | |
| Armboy | 5.4 miles | 7 | |
| Shinglers (historical) | 7.7 miles | 7 | |
| Worth | 10.7 miles | 7 | |
| Bethel | 11.1 miles | 8 | |
| Dakota | 11.1 miles | 7 | |
| Ashburn | 11.2 miles | 7 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Rebecca | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2305407 | 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 321350. 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.




