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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.

Riceboro within Liberty County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Riceboro 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.

YearPeople Change
2010809
2020615-194 (-24%)

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.

Fires near this place

498 since 1992

Regional 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 burning238
Arson/incendiarism152
Equipment and vehicle use47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Natural18
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
9 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LIBERTY007
26 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Storms near this place

30 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2001Thunderstorm WindRiceboro$15,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRiceboro$3,500Law enforcement reported multiple trees down on power lines on Oak Creek Road and Big Oak Road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRiceboro$3,000Law Enforcement reported trees down on the E.B. Cooper Highway near Riceboro, Georgia.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindRiceboro$2,000The Emergency Manager and volunteer Fire personnel reported two trees down on power lines in Riceboro, Georgia.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindRiceboro$1,500A trained weather spotter reported several trees down near the intersection of U.S. Highway 17 and E.B. Cooper Highway in Riceboro, Georgia.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindRiceboro$1,000County Warning Point reported a tree down on EB Cooper Highway, near Riceboro.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindRiceboro$1,000A tree was blown down onto Magnolia Street near Coastal Highway.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindRiceboro$500Liberty County warning point relayed a report of a tree blown down across Highway 119 and Highway 17.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindRiceboro$500Liberty County warning point reported a tree blown down at the intersection of Big Oak Road and Oak Creek Road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindRiceboro$500Law enforcement reported a tree down in Riceboro, Georgia.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindRiceboro-The Liberty County Warning Point reported a tree down at 3287 South Coastal Highway and Cay Creek Road.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindRiceboro-Liberty County dispatch reported a power line down on Highway 17 near Chemical Plant Road.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindRiceboro-A trained spotter reported a tree down blocking part of the right lane on Highway 17 near Riceboro.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindRiceboro-The public reported numerous trees down on both sides of Interstate 95 just north of mile marker 74.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindRiceboro-A trained spotter reported shingles blown off a home and several shallow rooted oak trees blown down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRiceboro-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 2012HailRiceboro-A post office reported quarter size hail.
May 2012HailRiceboro-Liberty County warning point reported nickel size hail in Riceboro.
June 2012HailRiceboro-The public reported 1.75 inch hail.
June 2011HailRiceboro-The public reported quarter to baseball size hail.
June 2011HailRiceboro-A trained spotter reported dime to nickel size hail.
June 2009HailRiceboro-Law Enforcement reported nickel size hail in Riceboro, Georgia.
June 2009HailRiceboro-A trained weather spotter reported nickel size hail in Riceboro, Georgia.
September 2007HailRiceboro-Quarter size hail was reported in Riceboro. A wall cloud was also reported.
October 2005Flash FloodRiceboro-Heavy rainfall associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Tammy flooded Cay Creek Road.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindRiceboro-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindRiceboro-Several trees were down along I-95.
March 2000Thunderstorm WindRiceboro-Trees down.
March 2005HailRiceboro-no account filed
March 2003HailRiceboro-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Crossroads1.8 miles14
Retreat2.5 miles14
Screven Fork4.0 miles16
Lecount4.1 miles14
Dorchester4.4 miles16
Midway4.9 miles16
Seabrook5.6 miles15
Dunham (historical)7.3 miles15

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 RiceboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1847656The 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.