Smithboro, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Monticello census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31064. It stands on Broddus Creek. The Survey maps it on the Smithboro quadrangle.

Smithboro within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Smithboro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Smithboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 744 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 10 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	120
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
8 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-JASPER-002
19 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smithboro in 1 storm report in 2009: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Smithboro	$250,000	An aerial and ground survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia in cooperation with the Jasper county Emergency Management Director confirmed that an EF1 tornado touched down in far eastern Jasper county, approximately one mile west of Smithboro. The tornado continued on a 3-mile long eastward path parallel to and just south of Georgia Highway 16, lifting just before reaching the Putnam county line. This was one of two EF1 tornadoes to touch down in Jasper county on this date. The same thunderstorm that spawned this tornado continued on to produce yet another EF1 tornado near Eatonton and later an EF3 tornado in Hancock county. Several homes near Georgia Highway 16 were damaged, one in Smithboro sustaining major damage. A saw mill warehouse was destroyed. Many trees and power lines were down along the path of the tornado.

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Piedmont (historical)	2.2 miles	11
Aikenton	5.0 miles	11
Monticello	5.3 miles	11
Goolsby	5.3 miles	12
Benton Crossing (historical)	5.7 miles	11
Machen	6.0 miles	11
Athon (historical)	6.4 miles	11
Shady Dale	6.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333072. 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.