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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 8 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Chester quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
365 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 264 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 26 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-BLECKLEY-011 |
| 29 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2022Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Tornado (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]. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goldsboro | 2.8 miles | 8 | |
| Powell | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Brown Hill | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Cary | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Five Points | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| Frazier | 10.3 miles | 10 | |
| Cochran | 10.8 miles | 10 | |
| Royal | 10.8 miles | 10 |
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 Q122562177 | 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 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.






