Crawford, Georgia
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Crawford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30630. The Survey maps it on the Crawford quadrangle. 821 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 778 feet above sea level.
On record in Crawford
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
Crawford Depotlisted 1977- Amis-Elder Houselisted 1978
- Langston-Daniel Houselisted 1978
Population over time
3 figuresCrawford grew from 807 to 821 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 807 | |
| 2010 | 832 | +25 (+3%) |
| 2020 | 821 | -11 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Crawford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
196 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Crawford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 564 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 18 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 burning | 106 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-OGLETHORPE-009 |
| 6 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020OGLETHORPE009 |
| 6 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-OGLETHORPE-007 |
| 6 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-OGLETHORPE-006 |
| 26 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Crawford: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Eagle Quarry | Granite | Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crawford in 11 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $8,000 | The Oglethorpe County 911 center reported multiple trees blown down from the Arnoldsville, Crawford and Lexington areas to just south of Comer. Some locations include Dora Hill Bush Road, Arnoldsville Road, Collier Church Road, Washington Road and Hutchins Road. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $6,000 | The Oglethorpe County 911 center reported trees blown down from south of Crawford along Hutchens Road to Lexington. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $5,000 | Several large trees were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $3,000 | The Oglethorpe County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down from Hutchins Road in Crawford to Union Point Road in Lexington. |
| March 2017 | Flash Flood | Crawford | $3,000 | The Emergency Manager reported that flash flooding from heavy rain overwhelmed a pipe under the a section of roadway near Bunker Rill Road and Athens Road causing erosion under the roadway and an eventual washout. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $3,000 | The Oglethorpe County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees and a few power lines were blown down in the Sandy Cross area. The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported that one tree was down in Crawford. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $1,500 | The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported that up to seven trees were blown down along Georgia Highway 77. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $1,000 | The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported that two trees and one power line were down east of Crawford. A tree was down on U.S. Highway 78 just east of Georgia Highway 22 and a tree was down on a power line on Elberton Road in Lexington. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crawford | $250 | The Ogelthorpe County 911 Center reported that one tree was blown down along Georgia Highway 77. |
| February 2005 | Hail | Crawford | - | The Oglethorpe County 911 Center reported quarter-sized hail in Crawford. The public reported nickel-sized hail in Lexington. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Crawford | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| Hutchins | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Arnoldsville | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Stephens | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Sandy Cross | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Hogan | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Dunlap | 7.2 miles | 13 | |
| Smithonia | 8.4 miles | 14 |
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 Crawford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2196190 | The 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 355367. 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.






