Riceboro, 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. 615 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.
On record in Riceboro
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
Woodmanston Sitelisted 1973
Population over time
2 figuresRiceboro fell from 809 to 615 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 809 | |
| 2020 | 615 | -194 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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
498 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 498 fires within 5 miles of Riceboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,436 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 152 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 | 238 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 152 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 47 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Natural | 18 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
| 29 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020LIBERTY007 |
| 26 September 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | 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 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riceboro in 30 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 19 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | $15,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | $3,500 | Law enforcement reported multiple trees down on power lines on Oak Creek Road and Big Oak Road. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | $3,000 | Law Enforcement reported trees down on the E.B. Cooper Highway near Riceboro, Georgia. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | $2,000 | The Emergency Manager and volunteer Fire personnel reported two trees down on power lines in Riceboro, Georgia. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | $1,500 | A trained weather spotter reported several trees down near the intersection of U.S. Highway 17 and E.B. Cooper Highway in Riceboro, Georgia. |
| January 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | $1,000 | County Warning Point reported a tree down on EB Cooper Highway, near Riceboro. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | $1,000 | A tree was blown down onto Magnolia Street near Coastal Highway. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | $500 | Liberty County warning point relayed a report of a tree blown down across Highway 119 and Highway 17. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | $500 | Liberty County warning point reported a tree blown down at the intersection of Big Oak Road and Oak Creek Road. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | $500 | Law enforcement reported a tree down in Riceboro, Georgia. |
| April 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | - | The Liberty County Warning Point reported a tree down at 3287 South Coastal Highway and Cay Creek Road. |
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | - | Liberty County dispatch reported a power line down on Highway 17 near Chemical Plant Road. |
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | - | A trained spotter reported a tree down blocking part of the right lane on Highway 17 near Riceboro. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | - | The public reported numerous trees down on both sides of Interstate 95 just north of mile marker 74. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | - | A trained spotter reported shingles blown off a home and several shallow rooted oak trees blown down. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | - | The Liberty County Emergency Manager reported that there were many trees blown down in and around Riceboro, extending to the Long County border. The trees brought down many power lines which resulted in widespread power outages. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Riceboro | - | A post office reported quarter size hail. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Riceboro | - | Liberty County warning point reported nickel size hail in Riceboro. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Riceboro | - | The public reported 1.75 inch hail. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Riceboro | - | The public reported quarter to baseball size hail. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Riceboro | - | A trained spotter reported dime to nickel size hail. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Riceboro | - | Law Enforcement reported nickel size hail in Riceboro, Georgia. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Riceboro | - | A trained weather spotter reported nickel size hail in Riceboro, Georgia. |
| September 2007 | Hail | Riceboro | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Riceboro. A wall cloud was also reported. |
| October 2005 | Flash Flood | Riceboro | - | Heavy rainfall associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Tammy flooded Cay Creek Road. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines. |
| December 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | - | Several trees were down along I-95. |
| March 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Riceboro | - | Trees down. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Riceboro | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Riceboro | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Retreat | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Screven Fork | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Lecount | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Dorchester | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Midway | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Seabrook | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Dunham (historical) | 7.3 miles | 15 |
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 Riceboro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1847656 | The 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 356495. 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.










