Vanceville, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Brookfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31794. The Survey maps it on the Tifton East quadrangle.

Vanceville within Tift County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Tifton East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

701 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 701 fires within 5 miles of Vanceville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,265 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 132 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	417
Arson/incendiarism	132
Equipment and vehicle use	40
Smoking	30
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Natural	16
Recreation and ceremony	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2015	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-TIFT-003
9 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TIFT012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tift County

Storms near this place

12 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vanceville in 12 storm reports between 2012 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2015	Hail	Vanceville	$50,000	Roof and siding damage occurred due to very large hail in the Vanceville area. Damage was estimated.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Vanceville	$50,000	Tift county Emergency Management reported one house with significant damage at 1886 U.S. 82 East. The EM survey indicated straight line wind damage, likely due to a microburst. Pea sized hail was also reported in the area. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Vanceville	$2,000	Trees and power lines were blown down on Ferry Lake Road at the intersection with Robin Cook Road.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Vanceville	-	Downed trees were reported along Jacob Hall Road.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Vanceville	-	Downed trees were reported in Tift county.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Vanceville	-	A tree was blown down onto a power line at Windmill Road and Carpenter Road.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Vanceville	-	A tree was blown down on Ferry Lake Road.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Vanceville	-	A couple of trees were blown down near Paulk Road and Highway 319.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Vanceville	-	Trees were blown down in the Vanceville area.
June 2015	Hail	Vanceville	-	Quarter size hail was reported east of Tifton.
August 2012	Heavy Rain	Vanceville	-	CoCoRaHS observer GA-TF-6 east of Tifton reported at least 11 inches of rain over the last 24 hours. The rain gauge was completely full and overflowing.
April 2025	Hail	Vanceville	-	no account filed

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
Brookfield	2.8 miles	9
Ferry Lake	2.9 miles	9
Unionville	3.7 miles	9
Tifton	3.8 miles	9
Linder	4.2 miles	9
Phillipsburg	4.2 miles	9
Brighton	4.9 miles	8
Kelltown	5.7 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 324663. 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.