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.
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
John O'Flaherty Houselisted 1991
Zachry-Kingston Houselisted 1987- Buckhead Historic Districtlisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresBuckhead 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 171 | |
| 2020 | 194 | +23 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Buckhead quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
88 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 41 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 11 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest | PARK AND TROT |
| 9 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-MORGAN-002 |
| 26 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2016-MORGAN-002 |
| 2 August 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-GREENE-003 |
| 8 July 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-MORGAN-001 |
| 5 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-MORGAN-001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckhead | 4 hurt, $325,000 | Severe 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 1999 | Lightning | Buckhead | $10,000 | Ten cows were killed when struck by lightning while they were huddled underneath a tree. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckhead | $7,000 | The 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckhead | $5,000 | Several large trees and power lines were downed by thunder- storm winds. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckhead | $4,000 | The Morgan County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down in the Buckhead area. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckhead | $2,000 | The 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckhead | $1,000 | Tree down at the intersection of apalachee river road and whispering lakes drive. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckhead | $1,000 | Emergency manager reported a tree down on the 1400 block of Oconee Rd. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckhead | $1,000 | The Morgan County 911 Center reported four trees down in the Buckhead area. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Buckhead | - | The Morgan County 911 Center relayed a report of penny-sized hail. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Buckhead | - | The Morgan County Emergency Management Director relayed a report of penny-sized hail from the Buckhead community. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Buckhead | - | The Morgan County 911 Center relayed a report of nickel-sized hail from the Buckhead area. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Buckhead | - | The Morgan County 911 Center reported quarter-sized hail. |
| October 2006 | Hail | Buckhead | - | The public reported nickel-sized hail in the Rock Eagle/Lake Oconee area in the far southeast part of the county. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Buckhead | - | The Morgan County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Creek | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Smyrna | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Swords | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Bethany | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Madison | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Parks Mill | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Canaan | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Beacon Heights | 6.1 miles | 11 |
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 Buckhead | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q786073 | 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 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.






