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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.

Rebecca within Turner County

Population over time

3 figures

Rebecca 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.

YearPeople Change
2000246
2010187-59 (-24%)
2020208+21 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

Photographs

3 photographs, 1977

Taken 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.

Scenes in Irwin Conty, Georgia, Miller Tucker farm, Crystal Lake; Scenes in and around Rebecca, Turner County, Georgia, including Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church
Scenes in Irwin Conty, Georgia, Miller Tucker farm, Crystal Lake; Scenes in and around Rebecca, Turner County, Georgia, including Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church
Stanley, David, 1942- (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Crystal Lake, Irwin County, Georgia; Scenes in Rebecca, Turner County, Georgia
Crystal Lake, Irwin County, Georgia; Scenes in Rebecca, Turner County, Georgia
Stanley, David, 1942-, 1977. Library of Congress
Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Rebecca, Georgia; Scenes in Amboy and Sycamore, Turner County, Georgia
Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Rebecca, Georgia; Scenes in Amboy and Sycamore, Turner County, Georgia
Stanley, David, 1942-, 1977. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

220 since 1992

Regional 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 burning150
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
3 September 1993Natural3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TURNER-010
3 August 2006Natural4.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Turner County

Storms near this place

19 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2022Tornado (EF1)Rebecca$100,000A 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 2015Thunderstorm WindRebecca$10,000An abandoned building in Rebecca collapsed on three sides due to strong winds. Damage was estimated.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindRebecca$5,000Several large trees toppled by thunderstorm winds also downed several power lines.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRebecca$3,000Several downed trees and power lines were reported on Legg Road.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindRebecca$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindRebecca$2,000Some trees and power lines down. Reported by the Turner County EMA.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindRebecca$1,000A couple of trees were blown down along Waterloo Rebecca Highway and Cherokee Lane. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRebecca-Trees were blown down along Highway 107.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRebecca-A tree was blown down onto Shady Lane.
January 2022Thunderstorm WindRebecca-A few trees were blown down along Waterloo-Rebecca Road.
March 2020FloodRebecca-Flooding was reported on Shady Lane.
March 2020FloodRebecca-Flooding was reported on Highway 112 north of Rebecca.
March 2019HailRebecca-Golf ball size hail was reported southwest of Rebecca. Quarter to golf ball size hail accumulated on Highway 112.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindRebecca-Trees were blown down on Scott Road.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindRebecca-Trees were blown down on Shady Lane.
August 2000HailRebecca-Quarter size hail. Reported by the Turner County EMA.
May 2024HailRebecca-no account filed
May 2024HailRebecca-no account filed
June 2023HailRebecca-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Turner 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
Cold Springs (historical)3.5 miles7
Felder (historical)4.3 miles7
Armboy5.4 miles7
Shinglers (historical)7.7 miles7
Worth10.7 miles7
Bethel11.1 miles8
Dakota11.1 miles7
Ashburn11.2 miles7

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 RebeccaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2305407The 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.