BlockCadwell, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cadwell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31009. The Survey maps it on the Cadwell quadrangle. 381 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 394 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresCadwell grew from 329 to 381 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 329 | |
| 2010 | 528 | +199 (+60%) |
| 2020 | 381 | -147 (-28%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Cadwell quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
447 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 447 fires within 5 miles of Cadwell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,105 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 41 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 | 269 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 41 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Smoking | 22 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-LAURENS-029 |
| 4 September 2011 | Smoking | 9.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-LAURENS-034 |
| 30 September 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-LAURENS-032 |
| 29 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cadwell in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cadwell | $50,000 | The Laurens County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across the county in a swath around 15 miles wide from around Cadwell across Dublin to Lovett. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cadwell | $25,000 | The Courier-Herald of Dublin reported that thunderstorm winds caused considerable damage in Cadwell. Trees and power lines were blown down throughout the area. One home had a tree fall through its roof and a city shed had half of its roof torn off. Trees were reported down on U.S. Highway 441 and Georgia Highway 117. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cadwell | $6,000 | The Laurens County 911 center reported trees blown down from the Cadwell area along Highway 117 to north of Dublin around the intersection of Old Toomsboro Road and Thompson Davis road. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cadwell | $2,000 | The Laurens County Emergency Management Director reported that a few trees and power lines were down. No specific location was provided, but radar data suggests that the event occurred in the far southern portion of the county, generally below Georgia Highway 46. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cadwell | $2,000 | The Laurens County 911 Center reported that a few trees were down in the Dexter, Cadwell, and East Dublin area. Less than six trees total were blown down, according to county officials. |
| December 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Cadwell | $1,000 | The Laurens County Emergency Management Director confirmed that a brief F0 tornado touched down just east of the Dodge county line in southwest Laurens county between Cadwell and Cedar Grove. The tornado path was approximately 1/2 mile long and 50 yards wide. The tornado remained in a largely rural area between Georgia Highway 126 and U.S. Highway 441. Damage was confined entirely to trees. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Cadwell | - | A brief tornado started in Cadwell on Academy St and lifted a porch roof off a manufactured home and destroyed a shed as well as a few trees and limbs downed. Minor, sporadic damage followed, as the tornado downed or snapped several small to medium sized trees as it moved southeast before lifting southeast of Snow Hill |Church Rd near Graham Rd. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Cadwell | - | A brief tornado started in Cadwell on Academy St and lifted a porch roof off a manufactured home and destroyed a shed as well as a few trees and limbs downed. Minor, sporadic damage followed, as the tornado downed or snapped several small to medium sized trees as it moved southeast before lifting southeast of Snow Hill |Church Rd near Graham Rd. |
| April 2020 | Flash Flood | Cadwell | - | The Emergency Manager reported JD Williams Road closed due to flooding. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 6 inches of rain fell over the area, resulting in the flash flooding. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cadwell | - | The public reported golf ball-sized hail. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Cadwell | - | The Laurens county 911 center reported golf ball size hail and a storm spotter reported dime size 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Batson | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| Nameless | 3.6 miles | 8 | |
| Rentz | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Mayberry (historical) | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Musgrove (historical) | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Alcorns | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Dexter | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Westbrook (historical) | 6.9 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 Cadwell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2107021 | 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 331305. 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.