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Zellobee, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Buena Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31803. The Survey maps it on the Buena Vista quadrangle.

Zellobee within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Zellobee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 792 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 49 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 burning102
Arson/incendiarism49
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking14
Natural13
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
5 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-CHATTAHOOCHEE-001
3 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021MARION004
3 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021MARION003
3 September 2020Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021MARION002
23 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-MARION-003
23 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MARION-015
22 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zellobee in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindZellobee$10,000Report of a tree down on a home on the 90th block of Westwind Trail.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Glen Alta1.8 miles13
Berginville1.8 miles11
Pineville2.9 miles11
Elmview3.2 miles11
Union3.6 miles13
Buena Vista5.7 miles11
Brantley6.0 miles11
Hoggs (historical)7.4 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122558912The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333494. 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.