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Thomasboro, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rocky Ford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30455. The Survey maps it on the Rocky Ford quadrangle.

Thomasboro within Screven County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

191 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Thomasboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 792 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 21 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 burning119
Arson/incendiarism21
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-SCREVEN-019
18 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-SCREVEN-010
4 August 1998Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019JENKINS001
26 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thomasboro in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindThomasboro-Screven County dispatch reported a tree down along Thomasboro Road.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindThomasboro-A trained spotter reported that the wall of a metal farm shed was blown off.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindThomasboro-Thunderstorm winds downed power lines.

Every storm recorded in Screven 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
Parkers1.7 miles15
Woodcliff2.0 miles15
Zeigler3.9 miles17
Rocky Ford4.4 miles15
Goloid6.5 miles16
Ogeechee7.0 miles15
Waters7.1 miles17
Double Heads7.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326550. 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.