Sunsweet, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Chula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31733. The Survey maps it on the Chula quadrangle.

Sunsweet within Tift County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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
1973 USGS Chula quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

383 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 383 fires within 5 miles of Sunsweet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 935 acres in total. 12 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	234
Arson/incendiarism	46
Equipment and vehicle use	40
Smoking	19
Natural	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TIFT-010
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TIFT-007
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tift County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sunsweet: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	1985

Storms near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunsweet in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
February 2013	Flood	Sunsweet	$500,000	Persistent moderate to heavy rainfall over a long duration led to a gradual accumulation of water that caused areal flooding. Around 9 roads were closed, some of which were heavily damaged. Water reached the bottom of the bridge at Old Brookfield Road from Christian Way to Carpenter Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunsweet	$5,000	Multiple trees and power lines were blown down along Cromer Road with one tree down on a house.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunsweet	$4,000	A porch roof was blown off a house on Whiddon Rd.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunsweet	$3,000	A tree was blown down onto power lines resulting in a power outages in northwest Tift county in the area of Little River Road.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunsweet	$1,000	Tift county 911 dispatch reported a tree down near Red Oak Road north of Tifton. Monetary damage was estimated.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunsweet	-	Trees were blown down on a power line along I-75 near mile marker 71.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sunsweet	-	A tree and power line were blown down on Cromer Road.

Every storm recorded in Tift 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
Chula	1.7 miles	8
Hoganville (historical)	4.1 miles	8
Pebblebrook	6.4 miles	9
Hillsdale	7.2 miles	9
Brighton	7.4 miles	8
Harding	7.8 miles	8
Ty Ty	8.0 miles	8
Ferry Lake	8.6 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356570. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.