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Woodcliff, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sylvania census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30467. It stands on Carter Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rocky Ford quadrangle.

Woodcliff 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

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Woodcliff between 1992 and 2020, burning about 737 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 15 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/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 2005Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-SCREVEN-019
16 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-SCREVEN-010
26 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-SCREVEN-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven County

Storms near this place

14 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodcliff in 14 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodcliff$2,000Law enforcement reported four trees down, one on Rocky Ford Road, another on Stoopto Road, another on Edenfied Road, and the last on Fire Tower Road. The tree damage occurred approximately 6 miles west of Sylvania, Georgia.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWoodcliff$2,000Trees and power lines were reported down on Bay Branch Road and on Deer Run Road near Rocky Ford Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWoodcliff$1,250The Screven County 911 Call Center reported several large limbs down on Rocky Ford Road near Woodcliff, GA.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWoodcliff$1,000Screven County 911 call center reported a tree down near the intersection of Zeigler Loop and Rocky Ford Road.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWoodcliff$1,000Law enforcement reported one tree down along Rocky Ford Road.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindWoodcliff$500Law Enforcement reported a tree down on Millerville Road, near Woodcliff, Georgia.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWoodcliff$500Power line down near Woodcliff on Rocky Ford Road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWoodcliff-Screven County dispatch reported a tree down off of Bay Branch Road in the Woodcliff area.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindWoodcliff-The Screven County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Rocky Ford Road and Thomasboro Road.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindWoodcliff-The Screven County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Rocky Ford Road and Little Horse Creek Road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWoodcliff-The Screven County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Rocky Ford Road.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindWoodcliff-A tree was reported down on Stoopto Road.
May 2014HailWoodcliff-The public reports quarter sized hail and gusty winds in the Woodcliff area.
March 2003HailWoodcliff-no account filed

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
Zeigler1.9 miles17
Thomasboro2.0 miles15
Parkers3.7 miles15
Waters5.3 miles17
Goloid5.9 miles16
Lewis6.0 miles17
Rocky Ford6.4 miles15
Sylvania6.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333458. 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.