Boykin, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It lies in ZIP code area 39837. The Survey maps it on the Boykin quadrangle. 151 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 154 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBoykin grew from 143 to 151 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 | 143 | |
| 2020 | 151 | +8 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Boykin quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
239 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Boykin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 886 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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 | 178 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| 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 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-MILLER-006 |
| 6 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-MILLER-008 |
| 21 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 46 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020MILLER002 |
| 19 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-MILLER-007 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boykin in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Boykin | 2 hurt, $500,000 | An F1 tornado touched down just west of U.S. Highway 27 in southern Miller County and tracked east to North Eldorendo Road before it disspiated. Seven mobile homes were damaged. A roof was torn off a frame house. One frame house collapsed. Several sheds were damaged. One single-wide trailer was destroyed. An irrigation system was damaged. Storm damage surveyed by the NWS Tallahassee WCM. |
| March 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Boykin | 1 hurt, $200,000 | An EF1 tornado with maximum winds of 100 mph initially touched down west of US-27 in Miller County near Brinson Road. Damage west of US-27 included a center pivot irrigation system overturned. One home in the area was blown off cinder blocks.|Another home had roof damage where a corner of the roof was peeled off. A portion of the wall of this home was blown out. The tornado crossed US-27 and east of the highway destroyed a small modular home. This home had tie-downs to a cinder block|foundation. The home was blown 60 ft to the south and destroyed. The occupant suffered serious injuries. As the tornado continued moving eastward, several trees were snapped or uprooted, with another pivot irrigation system overturned. The tornado lifted before Babcock Lake Road. Damage cost was estimated. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boykin | $500,000 | Thunderstorm winds turned over a few trailers, flattened crops, snapped several large trees and damaged a couple of buildings southwest of Boykin. |
| September 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Boykin | $125,000 | A tornado caused minor damage to nine homes and two businesses in Colquitt. Reported by the Miller County EMA. |
| April 2020 | Lightning | Boykin | $5,000 | A lightning strike resulted in a house fire. |
| March 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boykin | $5,000 | Several large tree limbs ranging from 6 to 7 inches in diameter were downed from thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boykin | $1,000 | A tree was blown down on Dunlap Road. Monetary damage was estimated. |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Boykin | - | Water was over the roadway at the intersection of Twilight Church Road and Lucille Road. |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Boykin | - | There were numerous areas of water covering the road. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boykin | - | Trees were blown down in southern Miller county. |
| March 1993 | Hail | Boykin | - | Several large tree limbs ranging from 6 to 7 inches in diameter were downed from thunderstorm winds. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholasville (historical) | 1.6 miles | 8 | |
| Babcock | 2.4 miles | 8 | |
| Twilight (historical) | 2.7 miles | 8 | |
| Floydtown (historical) | 4.7 miles | 8 | |
| Colquitt | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Bellview | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Enterprise | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Spooner (historical) | 7.7 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 Boykin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4952500 | 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 311690. 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.




