Schlatterville, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hoboken census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31542. It stands on South Prong Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hoboken West quadrangle.

Schlatterville within Brantley 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
1967 USGS Hoboken West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

485 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 485 fires within 5 miles of Schlatterville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,105 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 59 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	247
Natural	65
Arson/incendiarism	59
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Railroad operations and maintenance	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	13
Smoking	6

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
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-BRANTLEY-003
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-WARE-013
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BRANTLEY019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brantley County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schlatterville in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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	Lightning	Schlatterville	1 hurt	Lightning caused a house fire off of Dyal Road that resulted in 1 fatality and 1 injury. The time of the event was based on radar.
July 2010	Lightning	Schlatterville	$100,000	The Waycross Journal/Herald reported that lightning struck a 100 year old farmhouse about a mile from Laura Walker State Park during the afternoon. There were no injuries. The time of the fire was approximated based on radar imagery, and the lightning fire persisted into the early morning hours of the following day as fire fighters contained the blaze to just the house that it destroyed. The cost of damage was estimated.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Schlatterville	$1,000	The public reported strong wind gusts of 50-60 mph. A fence and large branches were blown down. Many other items were blown of the porch. The cost of damage was estimated.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Schlatterville	-	Trees and powerlines were blown down along High Bluff Road. The report was relayed via Social Media. The time of damage was based on radar data.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Schlatterville	-	A tree was blown down on power lines along Pierce Chapel Road near Highbluff Road. The time was based on radar.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Schlatterville	-	Trees were blown down along Schlatterville Road. The time of damage was based on radar.
December 2002	Tornado (F0)	Schlatterville	-	Brief touchdown in Laura Walker State Park.

Every storm recorded in Brantley 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
Hoboken	3.5 miles	8
Fort Mudge	7.5 miles	8
Hickox	10.9 miles	17
Bachlott	11.1 miles	8
Burton Terrace	11.3 miles	17
Nahunta	11.8 miles	17
Raybon	13.6 miles	14
Prosperity	14.2 miles	17

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 Q122550695

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 332992. 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.