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Redding, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Warner Robins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31088. It stands on Cainey Branch. The Survey maps it on the Warner Robins SE quadrangle.

Redding within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

234 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Redding between 1992 and 2019, burning about 488 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 48 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 burning79
Misuse of fire by a minor56
Arson/incendiarism48
Recreation and ceremony15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Natural8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Debris and open burning2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TWIGGS004
18 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HOUSTON-009
13 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-HOUSTON-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redding in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
November 2020Thunderstorm WindRedding$100A trained spotter reported 2 large limbs blown down on Russell Parkway eastbound just west of Highway 247.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Deerwood1.2 miles11
Holly Bluff1.4 miles11
Creekside1.5 miles11
Windsor Forest1.5 miles11
Stathams Landing1.7 miles11
Kings Crossing1.8 miles11
Forest Pointe1.9 miles11
Wallston2.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671753. 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.