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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.

Rockville within Putnam County

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

187 since 1992

Regional 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 burning130
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural8
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-PUTNAM-009
15 September 2003Debris and open burning2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use22 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2011Debris and open burning26 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-PUTNAM-007
10 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-PUTNAM-008
6 August 2002Natural1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HANCOCK-007
31 August 2011Debris and open burning27 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-PUTNAM-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRockville$75,000The 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 2007HailRockville-The public observed penny to nickel-sized hail in extreme eastern Putnam county near the Hancock county line.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Oconee Springs2.9 miles11
Phoenix4.1 miles10
Turnwold4.7 miles12
Spivey (historical)5.8 miles12
Flat Rock8.1 miles10
Meda8.5 miles10
Warfield9.0 miles11
Eatonton9.0 miles11

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 RockvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65041092The 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.