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Allentown, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It lies in ZIP code area 31003. The Survey maps it on the Danville East quadrangle. 195 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 430 feet above sea level.

Allentown within Twiggs County

Population over time

2 figures

Allentown grew from 169 to 195 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
2010169
2020195+26 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

345 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 345 fires within 5 miles of Allentown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,391 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 20 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 burning206
Equipment and vehicle use57
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Smoking15
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
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
8 September 2020Debris and open burning11 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021BLECKLEY002
8 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WILKINSON004
8 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Debris and open burning16 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BLECKLEY003
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Debris and open burning5.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Twiggs County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allentown in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 1 tornado, 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 2023Thunderstorm WindAllentown-Report of tree down on Highway 112 about 0.5 miles north of I16.
April 2022Tornado (EF0)Allentown-A QLCS EF0 tornado quickly developed along a line of storms the evening of Wednesday April 6, 2022. The tornado developed near the Twiggs/Bleckley County line along I-16 where several trees were snapped and uprooted. [4/6/22: Tornado #2, County #1/3, EF-0, Twiggs/Bleckley/Laurens, 2022:022].

Every storm recorded in Twiggs 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
Danville1.4 miles8
District Path8.2 miles10
Mount Olive8.6 miles10
Jeffersonville9.1 miles11
Tarversville11.9 miles10
Marion12.2 miles11
Ripley13.6 miles11
Mount Calvary13.8 miles10

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 AllentownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2670381The 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 310468. 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.