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Coolidge, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Coolidge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31738. The Survey maps it on the Coolidge quadrangle. 528 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Coolidge within Thomas County

Population over time

3 figures

Coolidge fell from 552 to 528 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
2000552
2010525-27 (-5%)
2020528+3 (+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

269 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Coolidge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,036 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 37 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 burning193
Arson/incendiarism37
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking2

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
3 September 1995Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-THOMAS-010
22 September 1995Debris and open burning29 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1995Debris and open burning6.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1995Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1995Debris and open burning4.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-COLQUITT-018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thomas County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coolidge in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1998Tornado (F1)Coolidge$450,000An F1 tornado touched down off Bayline Rd near Coolidge which uprooted trees and utility poles, damaged a camper and brick house, and destroyed the Patch Poultry Farm and its 45,000 chickens.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in the Coolidge area.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$5,000Power lines were blown down in Coolidge.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$3,000Tree limbs were blown down with shingles blown off.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$3,000Power lines were blown down on West Geranium Ave.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$3,000A Thomas County Sheriff deputy reported several downed trees and power lines.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCoolidge$1,000A couple of trees were blown down near Coolidge.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindCoolidge-Large tree limbs were blown down on SR 35 Southbound before Arbutus Ave and blocking the right lane.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCoolidge-A tree was blown down in the Coolidge area.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindCoolidge-A few trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCoolidge-A few trees were blown down near 3499 Mary Owens Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCoolidge-Several trees were blown down in the county, including a picture of a snapped tree in the Coolidge area on social media.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCoolidge-Trees were blown down near Coolidge.
March 2013HailCoolidge-Half dollar size hail was reported about 1 mile south of Coolidge.
May 2012HailCoolidge-Golf ball size hail was reported south of Coolidge.

Every storm recorded in Thomas 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
Enon3.5 miles9
Chastain3.7 miles8
Merrillville4.4 miles8
Touraine (historical)5.9 miles8
Patten7.1 miles7
Dillon7.8 miles8
Fredonia8.0 miles8
Pasco9.7 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 CoolidgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2534065The 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 331455. 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.