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Rex, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Forest Park-Morrow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30273. It stands on Sweetgum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jonesboro quadrangle. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Rex within Clayton County

On record in Rex

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Rex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 365 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 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 burning58
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Arson/incendiarism22
Smoking7
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CLAYTON-002
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CLAYTON-001
6 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021HENRY001
17 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rex in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2025Thunderstorm WindRex$1,000Broadcast social media post showing a downed tree at macon hwy and sunset hills blvd.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindRex-Report of tree causing powerlines down along Woodfield Ln.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindRex-A tree down on home near intersection of Macon Hwy and Fielder Rd.
March 2002HailRex-The public reported quarter size hail. Some patio furniture was also blown about, but no wind damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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
Ambleside0.2 miles21
Meadowview Acres0.2 miles21
Katherine Valley0.4 miles21
Homestead0.4 miles21
Foxfield0.8 miles21
Woodlawn Acres0.8 miles21
Amber Wood Estates1.0 miles21
Stagecoach Manor1.2 miles21

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 RexAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7319112The 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 332836. 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.