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Rebie, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Northeast Bleckley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31012. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle.

Rebie within Bleckley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

365 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 365 fires within 5 miles of Rebie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,466 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 26 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 burning264
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use26
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BLECKLEY-011
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bleckley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rebie in 1 storm report in 2022: 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)Rebie-The parent storm responsible for the QLCS tornado which impacted |the south side of Cochran quickly regenerated a new EF1 tornado |near the Bleckley and Laurens county line south of W. Chicken |Road. Trees were snapped and uprooted as the tornado crossed |Branch Road. The tornado quickly reached maximum intensity along |Hillbridge Road where hundreds of trees were snapped an uprooted.|The storm continued east into a wooded area before lifting at |Thompson Road. [4/5/22: Tornado #17, County #1/2, EF-1, Bleckley/Laurens, 2022:020].

Every storm recorded in Bleckley 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
Goldsboro2.8 miles8
Powell3.7 miles8
Brown Hill7.7 miles10
Cary7.7 miles10
Five Points9.0 miles10
Frazier10.3 miles10
Cochran10.8 miles10
Royal10.8 miles10

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 Q122562177The 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 321355. 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.