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Buckhead, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Buckhead census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30625. It stands on North Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buckhead quadrangle. 194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Buckhead within Morgan County

On record in Buckhead

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Buckhead grew from 171 to 194 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
2010171
2020194+23 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Buckhead between 1992 and 2019, burning about 448 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism11
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
28 September 1994Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestPARK AND TROT
9 August 2007Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-MORGAN-002
26 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-MORGAN-002
2 August 2011Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-GREENE-003
8 July 2014Arson/incendiarism1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-MORGAN-001
5 July 2000Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-MORGAN-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckhead in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1999Thunderstorm WindBuckhead4 hurt, $325,000Severe thunderstorm winds damaged farm buildings and knocked down several trees in the east and south part of Madison county. In the Godfrey community, winds damaged as many as 9 chicken houses, 5 of which were almost totally destroyed. Six people were trapped in the collapsed buildings and four were injured.
August 1999LightningBuckhead$10,000Ten cows were killed when struck by lightning while they were huddled underneath a tree.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBuckhead$7,000The Morgan County Emergency Management Director reported that a microburst or downburst associated with a small, yet strong thunderstorm in the area, blew down or damaged from 10 to 20 large oak trees, rolled a tin roof up on a barn, and blew some shingles off a nearby home.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindBuckhead$5,000Several large trees and power lines were downed by thunder- storm winds.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBuckhead$4,000The Morgan County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down in the Buckhead area.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBuckhead$2,000The Morgan County 911 Center reported that a number of trees were down in the far southeast part of the county, just southwest of Buckhead, blocking Seven Islands Road. Pea-sized hail was also observed in the area.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindBuckhead$1,000Tree down at the intersection of apalachee river road and whispering lakes drive.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBuckhead$1,000Emergency manager reported a tree down on the 1400 block of Oconee Rd.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindBuckhead$1,000The Morgan County 911 Center reported four trees down in the Buckhead area.
June 2010HailBuckhead-The Morgan County 911 Center relayed a report of penny-sized hail.
September 2010HailBuckhead-The Morgan County Emergency Management Director relayed a report of penny-sized hail from the Buckhead community.
April 2008HailBuckhead-The Morgan County 911 Center relayed a report of nickel-sized hail from the Buckhead area.
June 2007HailBuckhead-The Morgan County 911 Center reported quarter-sized hail.
October 2006HailBuckhead-The public reported nickel-sized hail in the Rock Eagle/Lake Oconee area in the far southeast part of the county.
July 2004HailBuckhead-The Morgan County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Sugar Creek2.8 miles11
Smyrna3.0 miles11
Swords3.4 miles11
Bethany4.1 miles11
Madison5.9 miles11
Parks Mill6.0 miles11
Canaan6.1 miles11
Beacon Heights6.1 miles11

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 BuckheadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q786073The 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 354900. 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.