Roper, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hazlehurst census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31539. It stands on Fox Branch. The Survey maps it on the Roper quadrangle.

Roper within Jeff Davis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Roper quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

586 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 586 fires within 5 miles of Roper between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,001 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 42 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	376
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Arson/incendiarism	42
Misuse of fire by a minor	35
Smoking	24
Recreation and ceremony	24
Natural	21
Equipment and vehicle use	21

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 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JEFF DAVIS-016
8 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-JEFF DAVIS-011
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-JEFF DAVIS-008
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JEFF DAVIS023
30 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JEFF DAVIS-021

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jeff Davis County

Storms near this place

17 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roper in 17 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 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
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	$10,000	Reports of trees and powerlines down across the area. Time estimated from radar.
July 2024	Flood	Roper	-	A road was \| washed our near Toliver Schell Road. Time \| estimated from radar.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	-	A tree was blown down in a field.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	-	Widespread trees were blown down along the Douglas Highway from Denton to Hazlehurst. The time of damage was based on radar.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	-	Multiple reports of damage near the intersection of Preston Long road, Elizabeth Church road and US 221 N Highway. Multiple large hardwood trees were uprooted. A roof deck was uplifted from a house and lost a significant amount of roof covering material. The fast food restaurant next to the house also lost roof covering but around less than 20 percent. Another house across US 221 N HWY had broken glass in its windows and doors. Also, a manufactured home had damage to its skirting. It was also reported that a home owners chicken pen and trampoline were blown away from his yard during the severe thunderstorm and werent recovered.
June 2011	Hail	Roper	-	Hail about half-dollar size was reported in Roper.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	-	Bell Telephone road had trees blown down.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	-	Jasper Colston road at the Broxton Highway was blocked due to trees that were blown down.
June 2011	Heavy Rain	Roper	-	Heavy rainfall caused temporary flooding along Bell Telephone Road. Portions of the road had to be closed due to flood waters.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	-	Trees were blown down along Highway 221 between Denton and Hazlehurst.
June 2011	Heavy Rain	Roper	-	Heavy rainfall caused temporary flooding along the Broxton Highway and Jasper Colston Road. Portions of each road had to be closed due to flood waters.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	-	Trees were blown down along Zoar Road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	-	Several trees were blown down on Spell Road.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	-	Trees were blown down near Roper.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	-	Trees were blown down Dykes Farm Road and power lines were blown down on Ridgeport Church Road.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	-	A local utility company reported several pine trees down on power lines northeast of the Snipesville area.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Roper	-	Trees and power lines were blown down across the county.

Every storm recorded in Jeff Davis 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
Goldsmith (historical)	2.5 miles	8
Satilla	4.7 miles	8
Brooker	4.8 miles	8
Hazlehurst	5.0 miles	8
Quinn (historical)	5.5 miles	8
Kirkland	6.0 miles	8
Bingham (historical)	6.2 miles	8
Snipesville	6.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326499. 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.