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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.

Seals within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

250 since 1992

Regional 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 burning99
Arson/incendiarism46
Natural34
Equipment and vehicle use29
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony4

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
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CAMDEN-045
21 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CAMDEN-044
9 August 2010Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CAMDEN-010
9 August 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CAMDEN-030

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden County

Storms near this place

7 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSeals-County dispatch relayed a report of a tree | down on a powerline near the intersection of | Highway 17 and Kinlaw rd.
December 2019Thunderstorm WindSeals-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 2011Thunderstorm WindSeals-A shed was blown down and damaged off of Harriet's Bluff Road.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSeals-The Okefenokee Rural Electric Membership Corporation reported trees and large limbs blown down on power lines south of Woodbine.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSeals-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 2010Thunderstorm WindSeals-Trees were blown down at the Interstate 95 intersection just west of Harriets Bluff.
April 2009HailSeals-Emergency Management reported golf ball sized hail along Interstate 95 near Harriets Bluff Road.

Every storm recorded in Camden 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
Kinlaw2.5 miles17
Deals Landing3.2 miles17
Colesburg3.5 miles18
Billyville3.8 miles18
Harrietts Bluff Village4.0 miles17
Mallard Pointe4.4 miles18
Sadlers Cove4.6 miles18
The Meadows4.7 miles17

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 SealsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7440654The 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.