Seals, Georgia
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodbine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31569. It lies near Floyd Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Kingsland quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
250 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Seals between 1992 and 2020, burning about 400 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 46 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 | 99 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 46 |
| Natural | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 29 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-CAMDEN-045 |
| 21 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-CAMDEN-044 |
| 9 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-CAMDEN-010 |
| 9 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-CAMDEN-030 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seals in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seals | - | County dispatch relayed a report of a tree | down on a powerline near the intersection of | Highway 17 and Kinlaw rd. |
| December 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seals | - | A tree was blown down near the intersection of Harriett's Bluff Road and Kinlaw Road. The time of damage was based on radar. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seals | - | A shed was blown down and damaged off of Harriet's Bluff Road. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seals | - | The Okefenokee Rural Electric Membership Corporation reported trees and large limbs blown down on power lines south of Woodbine. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seals | - | A retired NWS employee reported 2 large pine trees snapped off about 10 feet above the ground near the Harrietts Bluff exit of Interstate 95. The time of the event was based on radar. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seals | - | Trees were blown down at the Interstate 95 intersection just west of Harriets Bluff. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Seals | - | Emergency Management reported golf ball sized hail along Interstate 95 near Harriets Bluff Road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinlaw | 2.5 miles | 17 | |
| Deals Landing | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Colesburg | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Billyville | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Harrietts Bluff Village | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Mallard Pointe | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Sadlers Cove | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| The Meadows | 4.7 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.
| Wikipedia article on Seals | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7440654 | 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 322678. 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.









