Argyle, Georgia
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Homerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31623. It stands on Polly Branch. The Survey maps it on the Homerville East quadrangle. 190 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresArgyle fell from 212 to 190 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 | 212 | |
| 2020 | 190 | -22 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Homerville East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
What the histories say of this town
1,996 words1 chapter about Argyle from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| History | History of Clinch County, Georgia, Revised to Date, Giving the Early History of the County Down to the Present Time (1916): Also Complete Lists of County Officers, Together with Minor Officers and Also Sketches of County Officers' Lives; with Chapters on the Histories of Old Families of Clinch County; Also Other Information As Is Historical in Its Nature, Comp. and Ed. by Folks Huxford (1916) | 1,996 words |
Fires near this place
187 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Argyle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 874 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 9 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 | 107 |
| Natural | 36 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020CLINCH014 |
| 19 September 2018 | Natural | 42 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019WARE005 |
| 12 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 47 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-CLINCH-010 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Argyle in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | $500,000 | A homes porch awning collapsed near Argyle, GA around 7:30 PM EST. Time was approximated. Pictures of the damage were relayed via Facebook. |
| April 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Argyle | $150,000 | Tornado damaged 15 homes, destroyed 2. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | Trees were blown down across Chester Mattox Road. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | A tree was blown down along Highway 84. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | Trees were blown down near Highway 84 near Argyle. Heavy rainfall was also reported and water covered Richard James Road. The time of damage was based on radar. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | Trees were blown down in Argyle. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | At spotter at 272 Prescott Road estimated 60 mph wind gusts. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | A storm spotter reported television cable lines down in Argyle. |
| August 2008 | Heavy Rain | Argyle | - | A spotter reported 6 inches of standing water near Highway 84. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Argyle | - | A spotter reported penny size hail in Argyle. |
| October 2008 | Hail | Argyle | - | Penny size hail was reported in Argyle. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | Trees and power lines were blown down along Antioch Church Road, south of Argyle. The time of the event was based on radar imagery. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Argyle | - | A spotter reported nickel size hail about 2 miles east of Argyle around 903 pm local time. At 930 pm, the spotter reported quarter size hail with 50 mph wind gusts in Homerville. Minor street flooding was also reported in Homerville. |
| August 2007 | Heavy Rain | Argyle | - | Doppler radar indicated near 2 inches of rain fell west of Argyle and east of Homerville along U.S. Highway 84 in the past hour. A trained spotter reported localized flooding and up to 6 inches of standing water on U.S. Highway 84. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down about 5 miles northeast of Homerville. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | About 10 trees blown down due to straight line winds. |
| March 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | Large trees blown down on power lines. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Argyle | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Argyle | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Argyle | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Heavy Rain | Argyle | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Traisville | 2.2 miles | 9 | |
| Paletree | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Homerville | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Midway | 6.1 miles | 7 | |
| Cogdell | 7.3 miles | 8 | |
| Gillicon | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Fivemile Still | 8.3 miles | 8 | |
| Mexico Crossing | 8.7 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 Argyle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2464315 | 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 354387. 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.




