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Rhine, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rhine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31077. The Survey maps it on the Rhine quadrangle. 295 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 243 feet above sea level.

Rhine within Dodge County

Population over time

2 figures

Rhine fell from 394 to 295 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010394
2020295-99 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

256 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 256 fires within 5 miles of Rhine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,980 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 27 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 burning153
Equipment and vehicle use29
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural8
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2006Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rhine: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium

Every working recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rhine in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
October 1995Tornado (F0)Rhine$50,000A severe thunderstorm with an imbedded weak tornado which briefly touched down damaged three homes. One home was a mobiel home which was damaged when a tree fell on it, one was a permanent structure which sustained major damage when the porch and main support for the roof was ripped off, and one was a temporary structure which had it's tin roof pulled off.
March 2020Flash FloodRhine$30,000The Emergency Manager reported that a portion of Oak Grove Church Road was completely washed out after corrugated culvert piping under the road became overwhelmed by runoff. Radar estimates indicate that 5 to 6 inches occurred over the area, falling on already saturated soils, resulting in flash flooding in the county.
May 2008HailRhine$10,000An amateur radio operator reported golf ball-sized hail in Rhine and the public observed penny-sized hail south and east of Rhine along the Telfair county line.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindRhine$8,000An amateur radio operator reported trees blown down and power out from Reeves Street to Second Street in Rhine.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRhine$6,000The Dodge County Emergency Manager reported a few trees blown down from Rhine to Jay Bird Springs.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRhine$5,000Several trees down along with roof damage on hwy 115 between Rhine and Telfair county line.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindRhine$5,000The Dodge County 911 center reported a few trees blown down from around the intersection of 2nd Street and Sycamore Street in Rhine to around the intersection of Milan-Chauncey Road and Marion Sheffield Road north of Milan.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindRhine$5,000The Dodge County Emergency Management Director reported that 20 trees and several power lines were down in the Rhine area. At least 300 residents in the area were without power.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindRhine$5,000The Dodge county 911 center reported numerous trees down in Rhine.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindRhine$5,000no account filed
January 2020Thunderstorm WindRhine$1,000The Dodge County Emergency Manager reported a power line blown down on Highway 280 in Rhine.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindRhine$500Dodge county 911 reported several trees were blown down.
January 1995Thunderstorm WindRhine$250Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and a power lines.
May 2010HailRhine-The Dodge County Emergency Management Director reported quarter-sized hail in the Rhine area. Radar data strongly suggested that hail of similar size fell southward to the Telfair county line east of Browning. One tree was also down along Georgia Highway 117 between Rhine and the Telfair county line.
May 2003HailRhine-The Dodge county 911 center reported quarter-sized hail.
March 1993HailRhine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Copeland2.1 miles7
Calvin3.4 miles8
Poplar Hill5.3 miles7
Five Points5.9 miles8
Ararat6.3 miles8
Union7.9 miles8
McCranie8.4 miles8
Chauncey10.7 miles8

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 RhineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2156232The 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 321548. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.