Rockville, Georgia
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31024. It stands on Buckshot Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rockville quadrangle.
On record in Rockville
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Rockville Academy and St. Paul Methodist Church Historic Districtlisted 2002 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Rockville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
187 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Rockville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 669 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 9 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 | 130 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-PUTNAM-009 |
| 15 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 2.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 22 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 26 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-PUTNAM-007 |
| 10 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-PUTNAM-008 |
| 6 August 2002 | Natural | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-HANCOCK-007 |
| 31 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 27 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-PUTNAM-004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockville in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2010: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rockville | $75,000 | The local newspaper for the city of Eatonton reported that numerous trees were blown down in the vicinity of the Oconee Wildlife Management Agency. Trees were down on a home, a vehicle, and at least one power line. Most of the damage occurred in the vicinity of Village Court and Jamestown Drive. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Rockville | - | The public observed penny to nickel-sized hail in extreme eastern Putnam county near the Hancock county line. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oconee Springs | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Phoenix | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Turnwold | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Spivey (historical) | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Flat Rock | 8.1 miles | 10 | |
| Meda | 8.5 miles | 10 | |
| Warfield | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Eatonton | 9.0 miles | 11 |
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 Rockville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65041092 | 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 332891. 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.






