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Jeff Davis County, Georgia

16 topographic sheets and 2 fire insurance atlases across 1 place.

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From the record

2 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Georgia within the United States
Jeff Davis County within Georgia

What the record shows

  • 1 place in this county was surveyed for fire insurance: Hazlehurst, in 1935.
  • 2 fire insurance atlases survive for the county. Topographic coverage is national; fire insurance survey reached only incorporated places with something worth insuring.
  • 120 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 2 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 2 buildings.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 15 populated places in this county; 15 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

2

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph PropertyType ListedReference
Jeff Davis County Courthousebuilding198080001098
Pace Housebuilding200303000591

The county from the air

26 shown

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 839 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 26 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1949-03-11, scale 1:20000
1949-03-11, scale 1:20000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1949-03-11, scale 1:20000
1949-03-11, scale 1:20000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1949-03-11, scale 1:20000
1949-03-11, scale 1:20000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1949-03-11, scale 1:20000
1949-03-11, scale 1:20000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1950-11-27, scale 1:59000
1950-11-27, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1950-11-27, scale 1:59000
1950-11-27, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1950-11-27, scale 1:59000
1950-11-27, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1950-11-27, scale 1:59000
1950-11-27, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1951-01-25, scale 1:59000
1951-01-25, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1951-01-25, scale 1:59000
1951-01-25, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1951-01-25, scale 1:59000
1951-01-25, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1951-01-25, scale 1:59000
1951-01-25, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-04-17, scale 1:40000
1968-04-17, scale 1:40000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-04-17, scale 1:40000
1968-04-17, scale 1:40000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-04-17, scale 1:40000
1968-04-17, scale 1:40000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1968-04-17, scale 1:40000
1968-04-17, scale 1:40000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-02-17, scale 1:15000
1969-02-17, scale 1:15000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-02-17, scale 1:15000
1969-02-17, scale 1:15000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-02-17, scale 1:15000
1969-02-17, scale 1:15000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1969-02-17, scale 1:15000
1969-02-17, scale 1:15000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1970-02-20, scale 1:46000
1970-02-20, scale 1:46000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1970-02-20, scale 1:46000
1970-02-20, scale 1:46000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1970-02-20, scale 1:46000
1970-02-20, scale 1:46000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1970-02-20, scale 1:46000
1970-02-20, scale 1:46000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-02-24, scale 1:20500
1971-02-24, scale 1:20500. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.
U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1971-02-24, scale 1:20500
1971-02-24, scale 1:20500. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

1 station, 4 gages

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

  • HAZLEHURST 1918 to 2015, hottest 41.7 C, coldest -12.2 C

The 1950 census, district by district

13 districts

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

  • 80-1Militia District 1364, Hazlehurst: Hazlehurt city: Hazlehurst city - That part north and east of State Hwy. 27 and Second Ave.
  • 80-2Hazlehurst city - That part south and west of State Hwy. 27 and Second Ave. and northeast of Southern Railway
  • 80-3Hazlehurst city - That part southwest of Southern Railway and northwest of State Route 135 and Tallahassee
  • 80-4Hazlehurst city - That part southwest of Southern Railway and southeast of State Route 135 and Tallahassee
  • 80-5Militia District 1364, Hazlehurst - That part northeast of Southern Railway outside Hazlehurst city
  • 80-6Militia District 1364, Hazlehurst - That part southwest of Southern Railway and northwest of State Hwy. 135, outside Hazlehurst city
  • 80-7Militia District 1364, Hazlehurst - That part southwest of Southern Railway and southeast of State Hwy. 135, outside Hazlehurst city
  • 80-8Militia District 1620, Whitehead: Denton city
  • 80-9Militia District 1620, Whitehead - That part outside Denton city
  • 80-10Militia District 1621, Altamaha
  • 80-11Militia District 1622, Ocmulgee
  • 80-12Militia District 1631, Blackburn: Militia District 1631, Blackburn - That part east of Hurricane Creek
  • 80-13Militia District 1631, Blackburn - That part west of Hurricane Creek

Wildfire, 1992 to 2020

1,751 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 1,751 of them, burning about 6,418 acres. 115 started naturally and 161 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning1075
Arson/incendiarism161
Missing data/not specified/undetermined136
Natural115
Smoking76
Misuse of fire by a minor67
Recreation and ceremony60
Equipment and vehicle use55
Railroad operations and maintenance6

The five largest, by the area the report gives. One of them was set deliberately.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 July 2000Natural997 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-JEFF DAVIS-006
26 September 1996Natural250 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 April 2002Arson/incendiarism141 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-JEFF DAVIS-033
27 August 2011Debris and open burning123 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JEFF DAVIS-008
20 February 2014Debris and open burning110 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-JEFF DAVIS-016
20 February 2011Debris and open burning102 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-JEFF DAVIS-096
20 April 2000Debris and open burning94 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2000-JEFF DAVIS-5000
23 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined89 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1963 to 2026

60 of 177 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 177 reports for this county, causing no deaths, no injuries and about $521,500 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Thunderstorm Wind109
Hail39
Tornado8
Heavy Rain6
Lightning6
Flash Flood4
Flood4
Funnel Cloud1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1963Tornado (F1)not stated$250,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$80,000Numerous large trees down. Power lines down. Large truck trailer overturned. Concrete block structure destroyed.
July 1987Tornado (F1)not stated$25,000no account filed
June 1977Tornado (F1)not stated$25,000no account filed
July 2015LightningDenton$20,000A lightning fire caused major damage to a home on Towns Creek Road. The cost of damage was unknown but it was estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$15,000Roof lifted off a tobacco barn. Large trees were blown down.
March 1998Flash FloodCountywide$15,000Numerous roads and streets were closed.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindHazlehurst$15,000Eight large trees and several power lines were blown down. Two buildings received structural damage.
January 1998Tornado (F0)Hazelhurst$15,000no account filed
March 2026Thunderstorm WindRoper$10,000Reports of trees and powerlines down across the area. Time estimated from radar.
September 1998Flash FloodCountywide$10,000Rainfall amounts of 5 to 7 inches from the remnants of Hurricane Georges caused the closing of numerous street and road.
July 2015LightningHazelhurst$5,000A lightning fire caused minor damage to a home in Hazelhurst. The cost of damage was unknown but it was estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
December 2002Tornado (F0)Hazelhurst$5,000Brief touchdown. Trees down on power lines with power lines down. Power poles snapped off above ground.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$4,500Numerous reports of large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$2,500Large trees and power lines were blown down.
February 2000Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$2,500Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$2,500Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2012LightningHazelhurst$2,000A substation at Highway 23 and Hinson Farm Road was struck by lightning. A power outage occurred which affected 1,577 customers. The cost of electrical damage was estimated.
August 2007LightningHazelhurst Arpt$2,000Lightning struck a tree and damaged a near by building. Damaged cost was estimated.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$2,000Large trees were blown down.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$2,000Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$2,000Large trees and power lines were blown down.
January 1998Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$1,500Large trees were blown down along Highway 19.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$1,500Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$1,500Large trees were blown down West of HWY 341.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$1,000Multiple trees down and hail were reported in Hazlehurst and surrounding areas. Timing of events estimated by radar.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindCountywide$1,000Power lines blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$500Tree and powerlines were reported down along South Miller St. The time of damage was estimated by radar. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst Arpt$500Power lines were blown down along John Long Road. The time of damage was estimated and the coast was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHalls Spur$500A power line was blown down along U.S. Highway 221 (Uvalda Highway) northeast of Hazelhurst. The cost of damage was unknown but estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
August 2011LightningHazelhurst$500Lightning caused a tree fire on 31 Sparrow Lane in Hazlehurst.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$500Large trees were blown down.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst$500Large trees were blown down.
August 2025Heavy RainHalls Spur-Private weather station SCS Farms KGAHAZLE6 measured 2.23 inches of rain in the past hour. Rain began around 245 PM.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSnipesville-Trees were blown down on Broxton Highway. The time of damage was based on radar.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-Trees were blown down along J.P. Hall Road. The time of damage was based on radar.
September 2024FloodHazelhurst-Street flooding was reported near the Jeff | Davis public library. Significant parking | lot flooding was also reported at the | Farmers market.
September 2024Heavy RainHazelhurst Arpt-A mesonet station LBRG1 0.9 SE Lumber City | measured 3.96 inches of rain. Rain began | around 330 PM. About 2.86 in. fell between | 430 PM and 630 PM.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindHalls Spur-At least a half dozen trees and several | wires were blown down around northeastern Jeff Davis | County per 911 dispatch. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2024FloodRoper-A road was | washed our near Toliver Schell Road. Time | estimated from radar.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst Arpt-Straight line winds near Kendell Stone Road, Pat Dixon Road, and Kirkland Still Road snapped large pine trees, caused roof damage and damage to a barn. A brief gustnado with peak winds of 100-110 mph occurred at 38 Marchant Field. The time of damage was based on emergency service calls.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-The public shared photos of several trees down on a local property in Hazlehurst, GA. The time of damage was based on radar data.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-A tree was blown down across Bell Telephone Road. The time of damage was based on radar.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindDenton-A few large trees and one powerline were blown down in the SW portion of the county. The time of damage was based on radar.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindRoper-A tree was blown down in a field.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-Trees and power lines were blown down. The time of damage was based on radar.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-Tree and power lines were blown down. The time of damage was based on radar.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-A tree was blown down onto a powerline. The time of damage was based on radar.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-A tree was blown down onto a power line. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSnipesville-Extensive wind damage to trees occurred in Snipesville. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRoper-Widespread trees were blown down along the Douglas Highway from Denton to Hazlehurst. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSnipesville-A tree was blown down onto a home along Broxton Highway, just NNE of Snipesville. Power lines and trees were blown down along Bell Telephone Road heading toward Hazlehurst. The time of damage was based on radar.
January 2022Thunderstorm WindHazelhurst-Powerlines were blown down outside of Hazlehurst. The time of damage was based on radar.
January 2022FloodHazelhurst-Delete this.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindRoper-Multiple reports of damage near the intersection of Preston Long road, Elizabeth Church road and US 221 N Highway. Multiple large hardwood trees were uprooted. A roof deck was uplifted from a house and lost a significant amount of roof covering material. The fast food restaurant next to the house also lost roof covering but around less than 20 percent. Another house across US 221 N HWY had broken glass in its windows and doors. Also, a manufactured home had damage to its skirting. It was also reported that a home owners chicken pen and trampoline were blown away from his yard during the severe thunderstorm and werent recovered.
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Denton-Just after 430 pm, a severe thunderstorm spawned a weak tornado that touched down just west of US 221 at Wooten farm road snapping softwood trees as it continued east northeast at 25 mph along Denton Still road crossing US 221 into Archie Miller road where the tornado damaged the garage doors of a farm outbuilding and removed shingles from the roofs of a few homes. The tornado stayed on the ground as it traveled east northeast strengthening to EF1 intensity. It then caused significant roof loss to a farmhouse and other homes and blew off the metal roof of a storage building just south of Yankee road about a half mile west of Bell Telephone road. Multiple trees and powerlines were down also along Bell Telephone road. The tornado moved east to northeast through Baucom and Brantley roads snapping and uprooting more large trees and toppling power lines before dissipating down to EF0 intensity as it tracked over Alma highway and then lifted and completely dissipated as the severe thunderstorm moved into Appling county before 500 PM.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindBrooker-Storms produced widespread trees down and power lines down across the county. Some local roads were flooded.
March 2020HailDenton-Nickel size hail was reported at the Denton Quick Stop. The time of the report was based on radar.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindDenton-A few trees were blown down between Snipesville Road between Broxton Highway and US Highway 221. The time of damage was based on radar.
March 2020FloodDenton-James Anderson Road was closed due to flood water covering it.

Mines and quarries

5 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 5 workings inside this county. None of them still produces: all are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Sand and Gravel, Construction5

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium

Every populated place in the county

15

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on. The 1 place that was also surveyed for fire insurance comes first, with the number of atlases and photographs held for them.

The vanished settlements of Jeff Davis County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Recorded here

Hazlehurst, Georgia

8 topographic sheets and 2 fire insurance atlases, 1935

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • 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.