Canoochee, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Summertown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30471. The Survey maps it on the Canoochee quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 354 feet above sea level.
On record in Canoochee
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 1 record
Josiah Davis Houselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresCanoochee fell from 71 to 70 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 | 71 | |
| 2020 | 70 | -1 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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
- 1971 USGS Canoochee quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
177 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Canoochee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,435 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 23 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 | 110 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2002 | Smoking | 3.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-BURKE-022 |
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020EMANUEL012 |
| 25 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-EMANUEL-006 |
| 19 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-EMANUEL-005 |
| 1 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-EMANUEL-014 |
| 1 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019EMANUEL001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canoochee in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Hail | Canoochee | $55,000 | An Emanuel County fire fighter reported golf ball sized hail. |
| January 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Canoochee | $50,000 | A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 MPH and a maximum path width of 200 yards began along Noonday Church Road in eastern Emanuel County where minor roof damage occurred. The tornado travelled northeast for nearly 5 miles downing numerous trees and destroying a small outbuilding in the Canoochee community. A large metal barn and silo had part of the siding removed along Mt Olivet Church before the tornado ended near Pike Johnson Road. [01/21/17: Tornado #23, County #1/1, EF1, Washington, 2017:024]. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canoochee | $5,000 | The Emanuel County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down from around the intersection of Highway 192 and Canoochee Road in Canoochee to around the intersection of Highway 80 and George L. Smith State Park Road near Twin City. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canoochee | $3,000 | The Emanuel County 911 Center reported that several trees were down in the vicinity of Canoochee-Garfield and Johnson-Hall Roads. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canoochee | $1,000 | Power line down at canoochee rd and canoochee bypass. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Canoochee | $500 | The Emanuel county 911 center reported that two trees were blown down, one in Canoochee and one in Summertown. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garfield | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Twin City | 6.3 miles | 7 | |
| Blun | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Modoc | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Summertown | 7.2 miles | 8 | |
| Stevens Crossing | 8.0 miles | 7 | |
| Three Points | 8.5 miles | 8 | |
| Durdenville | 9.4 miles | 7 |
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 Canoochee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5747603 | 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 312322. 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.





