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Scooterville, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Poulan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31775. The Survey maps it on the Ty Ty quadrangle.

Scooterville within Worth 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.

Fires near this place

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Scooterville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 696 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 36 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 burning90
Arson/incendiarism36
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3

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
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-TIFT-004
26 September 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019WORTH002
26 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-TIFT-021
23 September 1996Debris and open burning3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Debris and open burning3.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

9 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scooterville in 9 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindScooterville$2,000A couple of power lines were blown down on W H Saunders Road.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindScooterville$2,000A power line was down across the highway at Highway 256 and Bethel Church Road.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindScooterville-A tree was blown down onto EW Booth Road.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindScooterville-A tree was blown down at Paulks Chapel Road and Bethel Church Road.
April 2022Tornado (EFU)Scooterville-This tornado was confirmed via video on social media and photo from emergency management. Other than a few trees down, no damage of note has been reported from this tornado, which passed through mostly farmland and unpopulated rural areas of Colquitt, Worth, and Tift counties. Therefore, the rating is left as EF Unknown. The location and time is estimated from the video, photos, and radar data.
March 2020FloodScooterville-Flooding was reported on Sledge Road.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindScooterville-Trees were blown down in the Scooterville area.
May 2012HailScooterville-Nickel size hail completely covered the ground.
May 2012HailScooterville-Half dollar size hail was reported north of Norman park in extreme southern Worth county.

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Pine Hill4.5 miles8
Powelltown5.4 miles10
Minton7.1 miles10
Tempy8.2 miles10
Anderson City8.8 miles10
Sumner9.4 miles8
Poulan10.4 miles9
Gordy12.1 miles10

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 Q122571760The 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 326507. 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.