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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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Ailey within Montgomery County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Ailey 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.

YearPeople Change
2010432
2020519+87 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

323 since 1992

Regional 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 burning184
Arson/incendiarism48
Equipment and vehicle use38
Smoking16
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Natural2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-MONTGOMERY-009
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-MONTGOMERY-008
24 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MONTGOMERY-006
15 September 1995Debris and open burning4.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mt Vernon Mine Montgomery Sand CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mt. Vernon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerAlluvium
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerAlluvium
Unnamed Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerAlluvium

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

10 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2012HailAiley$66,200Amateur Radio operators and the public reported golf ball sized hail east of Mount Vernon.
May 2011HailAiley$65,000The Toombs County Regional 911 Center relayed a report of golf ball-sized hail from Montgomery county between Ailey and Higgston.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindAiley$20,000The 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 2016Thunderstorm WindAiley$20,000The 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 2017Thunderstorm WindAiley$8,000The Montgomery County 911 center reported trees and power lines blown down around Ailey.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindAiley$6,000The 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 1993Thunderstorm WindAiley$5,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted several large trees and downed numerous power lines.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindAiley$1,000The Toombs County Regional 911 Center relayed a report from Montgomery county of three trees down, one of which was on McGregor-Austin Road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAiley$1,000The public reported that three to four trees were down on a county road north of Uvalde.
March 2013HailAiley-The public reported quarter sized hail in Mt. Vernon.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Mount Vernon1.6 miles9
McGregor3.3 miles9
Oak Grove4.5 miles9
Higgston5.6 miles9
Petross5.9 miles9
Kibbee7.2 miles8
Alston8.7 miles8
Tarrytown9.1 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.

Wikipedia article on AileyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q405097The 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.