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Cedar Springs, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jakin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39861. It stands on Cedar Springs Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gordon quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 151 feet above sea level.

Cedar Springs within Early County

Population over time

2 figures

Cedar Springs grew from 74 to 75 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
201074
202075+1 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

283 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 283 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 949 acres in total. 4 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
Railroad operations and maintenance106
Debris and open burning101
Equipment and vehicle use37
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking8
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019EARLY004
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2016Debris and open burning32 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-EARLY-014
20 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Early County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cedar Springs: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Early County

Storms near this place

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Springs in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015Tornado (EF1)Cedar Springs$50,000This is a continuation of the long track tornado that started in Jackson county, FL and moved through Houston county, AL and into Early county, GA. For the Early county, GA portion of the track, numerous trees were snapped or uprooted along its path. Some damage to structures occurred, mainly with roofing material removed. The damage width reached its maximum extent south of Blakely where the tornado was estimated to be around 500 yards wide. Significant tree damage was noted about 2 miles south of Blakely just before the tornado started to lift. Debris from this area was blown east of Highway 27, but the tornado itself did not cross the highway. This section of the track was rated EF1 with winds around 105 mph.||While this is certainly not one of the stronger tornadoes to affect the WFO Tallahassee forecast area in recent years, this tornado is noteworthy for having a 39 mile long damage path occurring across three states.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCedar Springs-Large tree limbs were blown down on Highway 273 at Highway 370 and blocked the road.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindCedar Springs-A few trees were reported down between Blakely and Jakin.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCedar Springs-Multiple trees were blown down on Cedar Springs Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCedar Springs-Trees and power lines were blown down along Cedar Springs Road.
March 2012Heavy RainCedar Springs-A storm total of 4.71 inches was measured at the Sawhatchee Creek.

Every storm recorded in Early 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
Liberty1.8 miles9
Howards Mill3.0 miles9
Saffold4.4 miles8
Jones Crossroads5.4 miles9
Springfield (historical)5.8 miles9
Killarney6.0 miles9
Sawhatchee6.5 miles9
Jakin7.0 miles8

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 Cedar SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5759936The 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 312495. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.