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Deepstep, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Deepstep census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31082. It stands on Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Deepstep quadrangle. 117 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Deepstep within Washington County

Population over time

3 figures

Deepstep fell from 132 to 117 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
2000132
2010131-1 (-1%)
2020117-14 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Deepstep between 1992 and 2020, burning about 888 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 10 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 burning91
Natural26
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking3

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
30 September 2016Debris and open burning7.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-WASHINGTON-005
28 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Recreation and ceremony3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WASHINGTON-018
1 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WASHINGTON-015
9 August 2004Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Deepstep: 31 producers, 25 prospects, 14 past producers, 4 occurrences. 32 still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Clay, Aluminum, Kaolin, Aluminum. 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
Champion Paper and Fibre Co MineAluminumPast Producer
Georgia Kaolin No 1 MineAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
Thiel Kaolin Co MineAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
Anglo American MineClayProducer
Buffalo-China MineClayProducer
No. 5 Hale MineClayProducer
Scott Mine & PlantClayPlant
Veal MineClayProducer
Washington County MineClayProducer
Armstrong PitKaolinOccurrence

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deepstep in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$8,000The Washington County Emergency Manager reported s few trees blown down across the county from the Deepstep area, across Sandersville to near Tanner.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$5,000The Washington County 911 center reported several trees blown down along Pleasant Grove Road.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$5,000The Washington County 911 Center reported trees and power lines blown down county wide.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$5,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$4,000The Washington county 911 center reported many trees down across the western half of the county.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$3,000The Washington county 911 center reported several trees down.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$2,000The 911 center reported a tree blown down on Deep Step Road and power lines down in several locations in the county.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$1,500The public reported several trees down along Linton Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$1,000Tree reported down on Pleasant Grove Rd near intersection with Linton Rd.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$1,000The Washington County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down onto power lines along Deepstep Road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$1,000The Washington County Emergency Management Director and the county 911 center reported that four trees were down in the western part of the county, one of which was down near the Wilkinson county line.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$1,000Washington county 911 reported trees down in Deepstep and Sandersville.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindDeepstep$500The Washington County 911 center reported that three trees were blown down on Deepstep Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindDeepstep-A couple of trees and powerlines down on Pleasant Grove Rd near intersection with Deepstep Rd.
May 2011HailDeepstep-The Washington County 911 Center received many reports of small hail from pea to almost nickel-size, but mostly penny-sized or smaller. The hail even covered the ground and lasted for several minutes around Sandersville.
May 2009HailDeepstep-The public observed penny to nickel-sized hail along Deepstep Road, Fall Line Freeway, and Commerce Street in and northwest of Sandersville.
May 2005HailDeepstep-A spotter reported penny-sized hail. The hail partially covered the road.
April 2004HailDeepstep-A storm spotter reported penny-sized hail in Deepstep, while the county Emergency Management Director reported pea-sized hail in Sandersville.
January 1996HailDeepstep-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Goat Town0.6 miles11
Brook Springs3.5 miles8
Hebron4.0 miles8
Tabernacle4.3 miles8
Kaolin4.7 miles11
Ennis7.4 miles8
Sandersville8.8 miles9
Silas (historical)9.0 miles11

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 DeepstepAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1842084The 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 331534. 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.