Andersonville, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Andersonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31711. It stands on Prison Branch. The Survey maps it on the Andersonville quadrangle. 237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 397 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAndersonville fell from 255 to 237 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 | 255 | |
| 2020 | 237 | -18 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Andersonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
184 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Andersonville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 838 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 13 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 | 112 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-SUMTER-002 |
| 6 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 6.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020MACON004 |
| 5 September 1995 | Smoking | 20 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020SCHLEY003 |
| 25 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 3.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 36 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Andersonville: 20 past producers, 11 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin, Aluminum, Kaolin, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatton Mine | Aluminum, Ball Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Mullite Company of America | Kaolin, Aluminum | Occurrence | Weathering Residual | |
| Mullite North Pit Lot 278 | Clay, Aluminum | Past Producer | ||
| Wilburn Pit No 1 | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Sumter County Mine | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Webb Pit No. M3 | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Andersonville Bauxite District | Aluminum, Kaolin | Past Producer | SEDIMENTARY | |
| Holloway Property | Aluminum, Kaolin | Prospect | ||
| Mulcoa Plant No 1 | Aluminum, Kaolin | Past Producer | ||
| Clark Property | Kaolin, Aluminum | Prospect |
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Andersonville in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2013 | Hail | Andersonville | $129,000 | The public reported hail up to the size of golf balls at Patsy's Hot Dogs and Cool Cones near Andersonville. |
| July 2002 | Lightning | Andersonville | $25,000 | The Americus Times-Recorder reported that lightning struck an entertainment cabin/resort referred to as the "Quack Shack". The resulting fire completely destroyed the cabin. The cabin had been used since the early 1980s as a fun place to visit and a leisurely abode for many people, including lawyers, doctors, and even the Atlanta Braves baseball team. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Andersonville | $15,000 | Sumter Electric reported trees down on power lines just east of Americus. The public reported an estimated wind gust to 75 mph that flattened a corn field in Andersonville. |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Andersonville | $5,000 | The Sumter County Emergency Management Director reported that more than a dozen trees were blown down in the Andersonville area of far northern Sumter county. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Andersonville | $2,000 | The Sumter County 911 center reported three trees blown down at Highway 195 and Old Stage Coach Road. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Andersonville | $750 | The Sumter County 911 Center reported that three trees were down in the area. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Andersonville | - | The Sumter county Emergency Manager reported golf ball sized-hail. |
| September 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Andersonville | - | A newspaper report indicated another brief touchdown by an apparent tornado took out a pecan grove on Georgia highway 49 near Andersonville. This would probably have been from the same storm that had hit near DeSoto about 35 minutes earlier. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Andersonville | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Andersonville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennington | 3.7 miles | 7 | |
| New Era | 5.6 miles | 8 | |
| Arles | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Methvins | 6.9 miles | 8 | |
| Northside Homes | 8.8 miles | 8 | |
| Shiloh | 9.5 miles | 7 | |
| Americus | 9.8 miles | 8 | |
| Sumter Homes | 10.0 miles | 8 |
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 Andersonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2488496 | 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 354310. 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.




