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Avalon, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Martin-Avalon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30557. The Survey maps it on the Avalon quadrangle. 233 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Avalon within Stephens County

Population over time

2 figures

Avalon grew from 213 to 233 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
2010213
2020233+20 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

391 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 391 fires within 5 miles of Avalon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 546 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 72 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 burning204
Arson/incendiarism72
Equipment and vehicle use40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Smoking9
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-FRANKLIN-006
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FRANKLIN-012
29 September 2003Smoking1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-FRANKLIN-002
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FRANKLIN-010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avalon in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 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 1995Thunderstorm WindAvalon$20,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down several large trees in the area, the most extensive damage was caused by a large oak which fell upon a home on Georgia Highway 328.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAvalon-County comms reported multiple trees blown down on roads near Martin and Avalon.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindAvalon-Law enforcement reported multiple trees blown down and blocking roads.
May 2016HailAvalon-Public reported dime to quarter size hail.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindAvalon-A couple trees blown down on highway 17 between Avalon and Martin.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindAvalon-Trees down, including one on Martin Rd.
June 2001HailAvalon-Sheriff's department relayed a report of dime-sized hail at Avalon.
May 2011HailAvalon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
Martin1.2 miles15
Fairview3.0 miles18
Toms Creek3.0 miles15
Eastanollee3.4 miles17
Union Hill4.7 miles17
Fighting Pine5.1 miles18
Hayes Crossing5.6 miles17
Carnes Creek7.5 miles17

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 AvalonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3049367The 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 326981. 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.