Rocky Hill, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Southeast Grady census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31792. The Survey maps it on the Beachton quadrangle.

Rocky Hill within Grady County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Beachton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Beachton quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Beachton quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 433 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 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	67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	JULIA MAE CT (37)
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GRADY-014
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GRADY-013
29 July 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grady County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocky Hill in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2008: 3 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
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Rocky Hill	$2,000	Several trees and power lines were toppled just south of Meridian Road.
January 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Rocky Hill	$2,000	A resident reported several trees and a light pole blown down in her front yard.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Rocky Hill	$250	Several trees were down.

Every storm recorded in Grady 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pleasant Hill (historical)	2.6 miles	13
Pine Hill	3.9 miles	11
Moncrief	3.9 miles	13
Beachton	4.1 miles	13
Good Hope (historical)	5.6 miles	12
Bethel	5.7 miles	12
Reno	6.6 miles	12
Calvary	7.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326495. 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.