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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.

Andersonville within Sumter County

Population over time

2 figures

Andersonville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010255
2020237-18 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

184 since 1992

Regional 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 burning112
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism13
Smoking8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
9 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-SUMTER-002
6 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Debris and open burning6.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MACON004
5 September 1995Smoking20 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SCHLEY003
25 September 1996Debris and open burning3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hatton MineAluminum, Ball ClayPast Producer
Mullite Company of AmericaKaolin, AluminumOccurrenceWeathering Residual
Mullite North Pit Lot 278Clay, AluminumPast Producer
Wilburn Pit No 1Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Sumter County MineClayPast Producer
Webb Pit No. M3ClayPast Producer
Andersonville Bauxite DistrictAluminum, KaolinPast ProducerSEDIMENTARY
Holloway PropertyAluminum, KaolinProspect
Mulcoa Plant No 1Aluminum, KaolinPast Producer
Clark PropertyKaolin, AluminumProspect

Every working recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2013HailAndersonville$129,000The public reported hail up to the size of golf balls at Patsy's Hot Dogs and Cool Cones near Andersonville.
July 2002LightningAndersonville$25,000The 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 1998Thunderstorm WindAndersonville$15,000Sumter 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 2009Thunderstorm WindAndersonville$5,000The 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 2016Thunderstorm WindAndersonville$2,000The Sumter County 911 center reported three trees blown down at Highway 195 and Old Stage Coach Road.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindAndersonville$750The Sumter County 911 Center reported that three trees were down in the area.
April 2003HailAndersonville-The Sumter county Emergency Manager reported golf ball sized-hail.
September 1998Tornado (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 1998HailAndersonville-no account filed
July 1997HailAndersonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Pennington3.7 miles7
New Era5.6 miles8
Arles6.2 miles8
Methvins6.9 miles8
Northside Homes8.8 miles8
Shiloh9.5 miles7
Americus9.8 miles8
Sumter Homes10.0 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 AndersonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2488496The 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.