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Scrutchins, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Smithville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31763. The Survey maps it on the Neyami quadrangle.

Scrutchins within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Scrutchins between 1992 and 2019, burning about 688 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 26 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 burning100
Arson/incendiarism26
Equipment and vehicle use23
Natural12
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2016Debris and open burning5.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-LEE-006
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Smoking5.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LEE-011
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarism8.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-LEE-005
5 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scrutchins in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindScrutchins$3,000The Lee county 911 dispatch reported several trees down on Highway 377. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindScrutchins-A tree was blown down on Highway 118E and Highway 377.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindScrutchins-Fallen trees and limbs resulted in power outages east of Smithville.
May 2017Tornado (EF1)Scrutchins-An EF1 tornado with max winds estimated near 90 mph touched down in Lee county and moved in Sumter county. The EF1 damage was due to trees, and no structures were impacted in Lee county.
February 2016FloodScrutchins-Dixie and Gosa roads were closed due to flooding.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindScrutchins-A few trees were down.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Eagle Pond1.9 miles9
Neyami3.0 miles9
Smithville3.8 miles7
Edwards (historical)5.2 miles7
Starksville6.9 miles9
Jordan Place7.5 miles9
Chokee8.0 miles9
Mossy Dell8.4 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 Q122547450The 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 326510. 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.