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Rosier, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Midville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30434. The Survey maps it on the Scotts Corner quadrangle.

Rosier within Burke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Rosier between 1992 and 2018, burning about 943 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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 burning58
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-JEFFERSON-003
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2015Debris and open burning26 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-BURKE-006
10 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2007Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rosier: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Milledgeville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary

Every working recorded in Burke County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosier in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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
March 2013Tornado (EF1)Rosier$120,000An EF1 Tonado touched down about 12 miles southwest of Waynesboro taking down trees, severely damaging field irrigation systems and destroying cattle barns and heavy equipment barns at several locations. A few cattle were killed and others injured.
May 2018Flash FloodRosier$100Burke Co dispatch reported that Hwy 56 was flooded and closed near Buckhead Creek.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindRosier-Burke County Dispatch reported trees down on Rosier Rd in between Highways 305 and 56.
January 2017Tornado (EF0)Rosier-An EF-0 tornado touched down near Reeves Rd. The storm tracked NE 1.5 miles, with a width of 100 yards, before dissipating near Rosier Rd. The tornado damaged a metal barn roof and several dairy calf weaning huts.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindRosier-Sheriff Dispatch reported trees on a power line near Highway 56 and Beedy Branch Road.

Every storm recorded in Burke 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
Magruder4.0 miles7
Vidette4.1 miles16
Scotts Corner6.4 miles7
Drone6.9 miles16
Gough7.9 miles16
Gertrude9.6 miles7
Number Ten (historical)9.9 miles7
Midville11.0 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122569043The 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 321936. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.