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Cochran, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cochran census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31014. The Survey maps it on the Cochran quadrangle. 5,026 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

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Cochran within Bleckley County

On record in Cochran

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

Population over time

2 figures

Cochran fell from 5,150 to 5,026 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
20105,150
20205,026-124 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

654 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 654 fires within 5 miles of Cochran between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,797 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 16 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 burning480
Equipment and vehicle use42
Smoking37
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Recreation and ceremony16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism16
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Natural11

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
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bleckley County

Storms near this place

39 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cochran in 39 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 25 thunderstorm wind, 13 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2000Thunderstorm WindCochran$500,000The Bleckley county 911 center reported that a couple of cell phone towers were blown down.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindCochran$125,000The Bleckley County Emergency Management Director and Macon television stations reported extensive wind damage in the southern part of Bleckley county. Several dozen trees trees and many power lines were down, especially in the vicinity of Mac Thompson Road and Chicken Road. Structural damage was also observed. Some 20 to 25 homes sustained minor damage from downed trees. One mobile home sustained significant damage when a tree fell on the structure. A horse barn near the intersection of Mac Thomsron Road and Chicken Road collapsed during the strong winds. A horse inside was initially rescued from the fallen structure, but later died from injuries.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCochran$50,000The public reported that 3 barns were severely damaged.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindCochran$20,000The Bleckley County Emergency Management Director reported that at least 30 medium size pine trees were either blown down or snapped in half in the Cochran area. Several center pivot irrigation units were turned over. A witness in Cochran noted the strong straight-line winds when his full-size Ford pickup truck was blown around. Several other trees and power lines were also down on Magnolia Road in northwest Bleckley county and in northeast Bleckley county on Cary Road.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCochran$10,000The Bleckley County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were blown down in the far southwest corner of the county, south of Cochran near the Dodge and Pulaski county lines. One barn also suffered significant damage.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindCochran$6,000The Bleckley County 911 Center reported numerous trees and power lines down across the county.
May 2014Flash FloodCochran$5,000The Bleckley County emergency manager reported widespread street flooding in the Cochran area due to heavy rain of 3 inches in less than 3 hours. Overflowing drainage branches and small streams caused flood waters to enter a garage of a home off of Ann Street. Highwater surrounded the concrete foundation and entered a crawl space of a home off Phillips Lane.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindCochran$5,000no account filed
August 2014Thunderstorm WindCochran$4,000The Bleckley County 911 Center reported 4 power lines and several trees down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCochran$3,500Numerous trees were knocked down countywide by thunderstorm winds. Power outages resulted when tree limbs fell on power lines.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindCochran$3,000The Bleckley county 911 center reported that several trees and one power line were down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCochran$3,000An amateur radio operator reported 12 to 15 trees down on Macon highway, U.S. Highway 23/129. One tree was a pecan and the others were pines.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindCochran$3,000Structural damage to a home and barn resulted from thunderstorm winds. A car was also blown off the blocks it was resting on.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCochran$2,000Em reports a couple trees down on the east side of cochran including along dyke st and frank cook rd.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindCochran$2,000The Bleckley County 911 Center reported that several trees were blown down in the Cochran area.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCochran$2,000The Bleckley county 911 center reported that a couple of power poles and a few trees were blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCochran$1,000A storm spotter reported that six trees were down on Porter Road northwest of Cochran and one tree was down on U.S. Highway 129/Georgia Highway 26 southwest of Cochran.
July 2008HailCochran$1,000The public observed quarter to half dollar-sized hail in the far southern part of the county, south of Cochran, near the Dodge and Pulaski county lines. At least one vehicle was damaged as a result.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindCochran$1,000The Bleckley County Emergency Management Director reported that a few small trees were down across mainly the southern portion of the county.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindCochran$1,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down 5 to 7 trees in and near Cochran on county and city roads.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCochran$500The Bleckley County Emergency Manager reported a couple of trees down in Cochran.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCochran$500The Bleckley county 911 center reported trees down on Georgia Highway 26, Julia Simpson Road, and Peters Street in Cochran.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindCochran$500no account filed
January 1995Thunderstorm WindCochran$100Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees onto power lines in the Rebie community.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindCochran-Tree uprooted along Fairfield Street near Clarendon Rd and Berkley Rd in East Cochran.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindCochran-Report of trees and powerlines down. Siding removed from High School Gym and Debris in road from local business. Along E Dykes St between Chester Rd and 9th St SE.
October 2010HailCochran-The Bleckley County Emergency Management Director reported nickel to quarter-sized hail east of Cochran.
March 2010HailCochran-The Bleckley County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail just southwest of Cochran.
May 2009HailCochran-Macon television stations relayed reports of quarter-sized hail from southern Bleckley county, near Frazier.
June 2007HailCochran-The public reported nickel-sized hail.|
December 2005HailCochran-The public reported quarter-sized hail.
June 2002HailCochran-The Bleckley county 911 center reported dime size hail.
May 2001HailCochran-The Bleckley county Sheriff's Deputy reported dime size hail.
June 1999HailCochran-The Bleckley county 911 center reported quarter size hail.
April 1998HailCochran-The Bleckley county EMA relayed numerous reports of hail ranging from pea to golfball size.
January 1995HailCochran-Hail was reported in the Cary community.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindCochran-Thunderstorm winds knocked numerous trees down county-wide.
June 1999HailCochran-no account filed
May 1996HailCochran-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bleckley 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
Paulk2.7 miles10
Porter3.0 miles10
Coley3.4 miles10
Frazier3.8 miles10
Royal4.3 miles10
McGriff (historical)4.5 miles10
Five Points4.9 miles10
Baileys Park5.2 miles10

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 CochranAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2407253The 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 355210. 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.