Sappville, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Waresboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31503. The Survey maps it on the Talmo quadrangle.

Sappville within Ware 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 Talmo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Sappville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,993 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 34 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	123
Natural	34
Arson/incendiarism	34
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-WARE-002
7 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WARE-010
30 September 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WARE-014
20 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WARE-011
19 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ware 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 Sappville: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Alluvium

Every working recorded in Ware County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sappville in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sappville	-	A tree was blown down along Vic Davis Road near U.S. Highway 82. The time of damage was based on radar.

Every storm recorded in Ware 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
Viviani	0.4 miles	8
Hasty	1.6 miles	8
Fairfax	3.5 miles	8
Waresboro	3.7 miles	8
Pine Valley	3.9 miles	8
Talmo	4.3 miles	8
Crews Crossing	5.5 miles	8
Millwood	6.3 miles	7

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 Q122542663

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 332980. 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.