Relee, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Broxton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31519. It stands on Paul Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville quadrangle.

Relee within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Relee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,142 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 32 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	79
Arson/incendiarism	32
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021COFFEE006
29 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TELFAIR016
22 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	9.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020COFFEE010
21 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-COFFEE-008
16 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Relee in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Relee	$100	A tree was blown down across Old River Road near George Solomon Road. The time of damage was based on radar. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Relee	-	Trees were blown down along Highway 441 across the northern end of the county.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Relee	-	A tree was blown down at the intersection of U.S. Highway 441 North and Will Smith Road. The time of damage was based on radar.
December 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Relee	-	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down between Broxton and Highway 107.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Relee	-	Trees were blown down from thunderstorm winds. The time of the event was based on radar.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sapps Still	3.1 miles	7
Pridgen	4.5 miles	7
Broxton	9.7 miles	7
Ambrose	12.3 miles	7
Lotts	12.6 miles	8
Lehigh	13.3 miles	8
Bushnell	13.9 miles	7
West Green	14.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332829. 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.