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Shingler, Georgia

9 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 31781. The Survey maps it on the Sylvester quadrangle.

Shingler within Worth 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

283 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of Shingler between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,300 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 45 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 burning194
Arson/incendiarism45
Equipment and vehicle use19
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2

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
8 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2001Debris and open burning11 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-WORTH-001
7 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WORTH003
3 September 1999Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WORTH-004
20 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-WORTH-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

15 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shingler in 15 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 flood, 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindShingler-Trees were down and blocking Hwy 33N.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindShingler-Trees were blocking Doe Hill Road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindShingler-A pecan tree limb was blown down onto Highway 112 and blocked the road.
September 2024Flash FloodShingler-Ephesus Church Road west of Poulan Shingler Road was covered by deep water.
September 2024Flash FloodShingler-Ephesus Church Road was flooded with water over the roadway.
September 2024Flash FloodShingler-Shingler Road was flooded north of Ephesus Church Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindShingler-Tree limbs were blown down on roads.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindShingler-Large tree limbs fell across Highway 112 and blocked one lane Pleasant Grove Church Road.
June 2023Flash FloodShingler-Flooding was reported near Highway 33 near North Joe Crow Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindShingler-A tree was blown down onto a power line along Souter Road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindShingler-Trees were blown down along Highway 112.
December 2016FloodShingler-Water was reported over Isabella Terrell Road at Doe Hill Road and Firetower Road due to a long duration of moderate to heavy rainfall.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindShingler-A tree was blown down on Highway 112.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindShingler-Several trees were down on Bridges Road.
March 2024HailShingler-no account filed

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
Terrell3.4 miles8
Isabella3.7 miles9
San Barnard (historical)4.0 miles9
Sylvester4.2 miles9
Poulan4.5 miles9
Camp Sherwood4.6 miles9
Sumner5.1 miles8
Gammage5.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333035. 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.