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Collins, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Collins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30421. The Survey maps it on the Collins quadrangle. 542 people lived here at the 2024 count. It stands 230 feet above sea level.

Collins within Tattnall County

Population over time

2 figures

Collins fell from 584 to 542 between 2010 and 2024. 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
2010584
2024542-42 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

334 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 334 fires within 5 miles of Collins between 1992 and 2020, burning about 641 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 61 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 burning191
Arson/incendiarism61
Equipment and vehicle use41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking10
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
5 September 2009Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TATTNALL-012
29 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TATTNALL011
23 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019TATTNALL003
20 September 1996Debris and open burning3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tattnall County

Storms near this place

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collins in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 22 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail. 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
November 2011Thunderstorm WindCollins$8,000The Tattnall County Warning Point reported a tree down on Ward Street in Collins and numerous other trees throughout the town.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindCollins$1,000Tattnall County Law Enforcement reported a tree down on State Route 292 in Collins.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCollins$1,000The Tattnall County 911 Center relayed a report of dime size hail and 2 trees down near Collins.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCollins$1,000An emergency manager reported a tree down on Highway 292.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCollins$1,000A trained spotter reported 1 tree down on Georgia State Road 292 west of Collins.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCollins-Tattnall County Emergency Management reported a tree down on Jesse Lynn Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCollins-Tattnall County dispatch reported a tree down on Live Oak Street in Collins.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCollins-Tattnall County dispatch reported a tree down on Highway 23 in Collins.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCollins-Law enforcement reported multiple trees reported down in Collins, GA.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCollins-Law enforcement reported one tree down near the intersection of Live Oak Street and Church Street.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindCollins-The Tattnall County 911 Call Center reported a tree down near the intersection of Lynntown Road and Live Oak Street.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCollins-A Tattnall County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Georgia Highway 23 south of Collins.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCollins-The Tattnall County 911 Call Center reported trees down on Church Street.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindCollins-The Tattnall County Warning Point reported power lines down near Highway 292 and Old Collins Manassas Road.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindCollins-The Tattnall County 911 Call Center reported power lines down on Highway 292.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCollins-Tattnall County dispatch reported multiple trees down on State Road 292, east of Collins.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCollins-Tattnall County dispatch reported two trees down on Highway 292 near the intersection with Hillview Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCollins-The Tattnall County Dispatch relayed several reports of trees and power lines down on Old Reidsville-Collins Road.
March 2012HailCollins-The public reported hail the size of half-dollars 2 miles south of Collins.
February 2009HailCollins-A trained spotter reported penny size hail in Collins, Georgia.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCollins-Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees on to Routes 292 and 23.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCollins-Thunderstorm winds knocked down large limbs across power lines.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindCollins-Several trees were down.
March 2005HailCollins-no account filed
December 2005HailCollins-no account filed
May 1998HailCollins-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindCollins-no account filed
November 1997HailCollins-no account filed
October 1995HailCollins-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tattnall 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
Danton (historical)2.5 miles9
Manassas5.0 miles8
Reidsville6.5 miles9
Cobbtown7.0 miles9
Hughland9.8 miles9
Bradleys (historical)12.0 miles9
Purvis (historical)14.3 miles19
Mendes14.5 miles17

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 CollinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1950738The 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 312845. 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.