Ailey, Georgia
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mount Vernon-Ailey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30410. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 519 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.
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On record in Ailey
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Willie T. McArthur Farmlisted 2012
Population over time
2 figuresAiley grew from 432 to 519 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 432 | |
| 2020 | 519 | +87 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Vidalia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
323 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Ailey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 930 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 48 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 | 184 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 48 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 38 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-MONTGOMERY-009 |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-MONTGOMERY-008 |
| 24 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-MONTGOMERY-006 |
| 15 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 4.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ailey: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mt Vernon Mine Montgomery Sand Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mt. Vernon Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Alluvium | |
| Unnamed Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Alluvium | |
| Unnamed Sand Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Alluvium | |
| Unnamed Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Alluvium |
Storms near this place
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ailey in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Hail | Ailey | $66,200 | Amateur Radio operators and the public reported golf ball sized hail east of Mount Vernon. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Ailey | $65,000 | The Toombs County Regional 911 Center relayed a report of golf ball-sized hail from Montgomery county between Ailey and Higgston. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ailey | $20,000 | The Montgomery County Emergency Manager reported a large barn had portions of its roof blown off and two trees were blown down at the Braddy Onion Farms on Highway 221 north of Mount Vernon. Dime size hail was also reported at this location. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ailey | $20,000 | The Montgomery County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down across the county, including at the intersection of McGregor Street and Broad Street in Ailey. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ailey | $8,000 | The Montgomery County 911 center reported trees and power lines blown down around Ailey. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ailey | $6,000 | The Montgomery County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down from east of Mt. Vernon along Highway 280, south southeast to Fire Tower Road around Highway 221 and east of Uvalda near the intersection of Gibbs Bridge Road and Jones Road. |
| March 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ailey | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds uprooted several large trees and downed numerous power lines. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ailey | $1,000 | The Toombs County Regional 911 Center relayed a report from Montgomery county of three trees down, one of which was on McGregor-Austin Road. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ailey | $1,000 | The public reported that three to four trees were down on a county road north of Uvalde. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Ailey | - | The public reported quarter sized hail in Mt. Vernon. |
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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Ailey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q405097 | The 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 310413. 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.
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.





