Retreat, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Riceboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31323. The Survey maps it on the Riceboro quadrangle.

Retreat within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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.

1920 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Riceboro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Riceboro quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

343 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 343 fires within 5 miles of Retreat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,228 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 120 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	138
Arson/incendiarism	120
Equipment and vehicle use	43
Natural	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-LIBERTY-005
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

12 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Retreat in 12 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 hail. 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
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Retreat	$2,000	Law enforcement reported a tree down on a powerline near the intersection of Highway 17 and Interstate 95.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Retreat	$500	One tree was reported down on Highway 17.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Retreat	-	Liberty County dispatch reported several trees down on the roadway along Ways Temple Road.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Retreat	-	Liberty County dispatch reported one tree down in the roadway at South Coastal Highway and Montague Street.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Retreat	-	The Liberty County Warning Point relayed a report of a tree down at 9472 South Coastal Highway.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Retreat	-	The Liberty County Warning Point relayed a report of a tree down near the intersection of South Coastal Highway and Montague Street.
March 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Retreat	-	A National Weather Service storm damage survey team confirmed an EF-1 tornado in Liberty County. The tornado first touched down near Highway 17, about 1.2 miles west of Interstate 95 and mile marker 69. The tornado then moved east-northeast across Interstate 95, where it snapped and uprooted dozens of hard and softwood trees. The debris was thrown across Interstate 95, and one truck and one motorcycle reportedly hit the debris on the interstate. The motorcyclist was injured, but the extent of their injuries was unknown. From Interstate 95, the tornado continued east-northeast to Old Darien Road, which runs parallel and just east of Interstate 95. The region between Interstate 95 and Darien Road appeared to be where the most extensive damage occurred. It was estimated that well over 100 trees were snapped and/or uprooted in this area. A camper trailer was also flipped and rolled approximately 20 to 30 feet. There was a single family home near the flipped trailer that sustained very minor shingle damage to its roof. Beyond this point, the tornado continued east-northeast and moved across mainly uninhabited marsh. In this area, the tornado appeared to be only periodically on the ground as it moved for nearly an additional 6 miles. The end point of the tornado was along Islands Highway, just north of Kings Road in the Half Moon area. There were several snapped and uprooted trees along and near Islands Highway.
May 2017	Hail	Retreat	-	Hail larger than the size of quarters was reported at the McDonalds in Riceboro near Interstate 95.
September 2016	Tornado (EF1)	Retreat	-	A National Weather Service survey team confirmed a tornado near Riceboro. The tornado touched down just north of Blackbeard Creek, about one half of a mile east of Interstate 95. The tornado moved north at 30 to 35 miles per hour toward the remote and heavily wooded area of South Hampton Island, and then continued north across North Hampton Island. Overall, it was estimated that a few thousand trees were snapped or uprooted across the region. The worst damage occurred across portions of North Hampton Island where many large oak and pine trees were snapped or had large limbs removed. Additionally, minor damage occurred to a few structures throughout the property due to trees falling on them. The tornado dissipated just north of Ferry Road on North Hampton Island.
June 2012	Hail	Retreat	-	The media reported hail between quarter and half dollar size falling along Interstate 95 between mile markers 66 and 76.
April 2011	Hail	Retreat	-	The public reported golf ball size hail lasting 3 minutes.
September 2004	Tornado (F0)	Retreat	-	A weak tornado knocked down trees and large limbs and did damage to a roof.

Every storm recorded in Liberty 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
Riceboro	2.5 miles	14
Lecount	2.9 miles	14
Crossroads	4.0 miles	14
Seabrook	5.3 miles	15
Screven Fork	6.3 miles	16
Dorchester	6.4 miles	16
Dunham (historical)	6.7 miles	15
Midway	7.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332835. 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.