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Climax, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Climax census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39834. The Survey maps it on the Climax North quadrangle. 276 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 285 feet above sea level.

Climax within Decatur County

On record in Climax

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

Population over time

3 figures

Climax fell from 297 to 276 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.

YearPeople Change
2000297
2010280-17 (-6%)
2020276-4 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

359 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 359 fires within 5 miles of Climax between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,290 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 32 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 burning285
Arson/incendiarism32
Smoking15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020GRADY011
30 September 1993Debris and open burning23 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DECATUR006
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-DECATUR-004
29 September 1993Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DECATUR021
24 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DECATUR020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Decatur 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 Climax: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Rollins PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this place

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Climax in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado. 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
March 2001Tornado (F2)Climax4 hurt, $500,000An F2 tornado touched down on Fewell Road in the Bell Dixon Community and tracked northeast into western Grady County. Debris was scattered over a wide area. Four persons were injured, one critically. Five homes sustained roof and window damage. Numerous trees and power lines down. One house was destroyed and eight others were severely damaged. A double-wide mobile home on Bell Dixon Road was lifted from its foundation and reduced to bits of debris in a neighboring field. Reported by the Decatur County EMA and Bainbridge Post Searchlight.
October 2008Thunderstorm WindClimax$50,000Straight line winds blew down road signs and damaged a contruction company building on Highway 262.
April 2023Tornado (EF1)Climax$25,000A brief tornado developed near Salem Church road and Handville Road, damaging a farm and crossing a field before dissipating near Bradley Street, just north of Climax, Georgia. The tornado caused significant damage to trees and a farm equipment storage building along the path, pulling very heavy concrete footing from the ground. The damage was consistent with an EF1 tornado with winds of 90 to 95 mph.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindClimax$10,000Several trees were blown down in Climax, including one tree on a residence. The roof of a shed was also blown off. Monetary damage was estimated.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindClimax$2,000Trees were blown down on Lake Douglas Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
November 2011Thunderstorm WindClimax$1,500Trees were blown down on Jones Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindClimax$1,000A few trees were blown down on Sykes Mill Road.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindClimax$1,000Downed trees reported by the Decatur County Fire/EMS.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindClimax$250Several trees were down on Lake Boston Road Extension.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindClimax-Several trees were blown down near US-84 over a 1 mile stretch.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindClimax-Two trees were blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindClimax-Several trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindClimax-A tree was blown down onto Palmer Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindClimax-Several trees were blown down on Highway 262.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindClimax-Trees were blown down near Climax.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindClimax-A tree was blown into the road at Highway 262N and Open Pond Road in Decatur county.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindClimax-A few trees were down on State Road 262.
April 2002HailClimax-Golfball size hail reported by the Decatur County Sheriff.
February 1998HailClimax-Decatur County 911 reported golfball size hail at Climax.
May 2023HailClimax-no account filed
March 2013HailClimax-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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
Otisco2.4 miles12
Parker Courthouse7.8 miles12
Mount Pleasant7.8 miles12
Bainbridge7.9 miles12
Fowlstown8.0 miles11
West Bainbridge8.7 miles12
Attapulgus9.2 miles12
Amsterdam10.3 miles12

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 ClimaxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2895646The 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 355192. 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.