Sibley, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ashburn-Sycamore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31714. The Survey maps it on the Arabi quadrangle.

Sibley within Turner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Arabi quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

278 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Sibley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,314 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 48 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	167
Arson/incendiarism	48
Equipment and vehicle use	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	6
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
6 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TURNER-012
20 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Turner County

Storms near this place

6 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sibley in 6 storm reports in 2020: 5 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2020	Flood	Sibley	-	Flooding was reported on Jones Road.
March 2020	Flood	Sibley	-	Flooding was reported on Alberson Road to I-75.
March 2020	Flood	Sibley	-	Flooding was reported on Ode Williams Road.
March 2020	Flood	Sibley	-	Flooding was reported on Lee Road.
March 2020	Flood	Sibley	-	Flooding was reported on HC Williams Road.
September 2020	Flash Flood	Sibley	-	HAM radio reported that Alberson Road was washed out.

Every storm recorded in Turner 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dakota	1.8 miles	7
Worth	3.8 miles	7
Shinglers (historical)	4.9 miles	7
Armboy	6.5 miles	7
Ashburn	7.0 miles	7
Felder (historical)	7.9 miles	7
High Springs (historical)	9.0 miles	10
Sycamore	9.4 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333046. 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.