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Reidsboro, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Zebulon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30292. The Survey maps it on the Hollonville quadrangle.

Reidsboro within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

251 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Reidsboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 635 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 28 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 burning175
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking6

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
8 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020PIKE002
7 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PIKE-003
3 September 2011Debris and open burning3.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-SPALDING-007
21 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-PIKE-001
20 September 1997Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PIKE-001
14 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reidsboro in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
January 2020Tornado (EF0)Reidsboro$25,000A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF0 tornado with peak winds of 80 mph and a maximum path width of 100 yards touched down in the 500 block of Wood Creek Road southwest of Williamson in northern Pike County. Several large trees were snapped or uprooted intermittently along a path following Reidsboro Road northeastward, including in the Eagles Landing subdivision, where one home sustained |minor roof damage. The tornado lifted just southwest of Pike County Fire Station #6 west of Williamson-Zebulon Road. [01/13/20: Tornado #1, County #1/1, EF-0, Pike, 2020:004].
April 2025Thunderstorm WindReidsboro$2,000Two trees down near reidsboro road and drew allen road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindReidsboro$2,000Report of trees down along Drew Allen Rd.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindReidsboro$2,000Emergency manager reported two trees down near the intersection of Reidsboro Rd and Drew Allen Rd.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindReidsboro$1,000A tree was downed across reidsboro rd at drew allen rd.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindReidsboro$1,000A tree was downed at Shady Lane and Reidsboro Road.
January 2012HailReidsboro-A member of the general public reported 0.75 inch hail just south of Williamson.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Jolly1.1 miles9
Smiths Chapel1.9 miles9
Beeks (historical)2.5 miles9
Bottoms2.7 miles9
Zebulon3.3 miles9
Williamson3.3 miles9
Hilltop3.6 miles9
Concord4.3 miles9

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 Q122566651The 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 332827. 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.