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Rehoboth, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Tucker census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30033. The Survey maps it on the Northeast Atlanta quadrangle.

Rehoboth within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Rehoboth between 1993 and 1999, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 May 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 April 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 March 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 March 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 March 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 March 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rehoboth in 7 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 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
November 2015Tornado (EF0)Rehoboth$60,000A NWS survey team determined that a very brief EF0 tornado touched down just northeast of the Mountain Industrial Blvd exit north of the Stone Mountain Pkwy near Tucker. Structural damage occurred at two locations along Hammermill Road. The front part of a north-facing wall was ripped apart at one location while across the street part of the roof and metal siding on the front of another building was peeled back. Just behind the first building, two pine trees were uprooted. Maximum wind speeds were estimated at 75 MPH. [11/18/15: Tornado #3, County #1-1, EF0, DeKalb, 2015:013].
April 2020Thunderstorm WindRehoboth$4,000Report of a tree and wires down on the 2000 block of Mountain Creek Road in Stone Mountain.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRehoboth$2,000A trained spotter reported a large tree blown down and minor property damage along Fairgreen Drive.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRehoboth$1,000A tree was downed in the 4900 block of Central Drive.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRehoboth$1,000A tree and power lines were downed onto Greer Circle at Roadhaven Drive.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRehoboth$1,000Report of tree downed on Carrington Court.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindRehoboth-Multiple trees down between Clarkston and Stone Mountain.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Country Squire Acres0.3 miles21
North DeKalb1.1 miles21
Montreal1.5 miles24
Oak Grove1.5 miles21
Clarkston1.7 miles24
Idlewood Acres2.1 miles24
Scottdale2.4 miles21
Oakengate2.5 miles24

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 RehobothAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65040924The 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 332825. 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.