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Doerun, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Doerun census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31744. The Survey maps it on the Doerun quadrangle. 738 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Doerun within Colquitt County

Population over time

2 figures

Doerun fell from 774 to 738 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
2010774
2020738-36 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1977

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Oakfield, Georgia; H.W. Garrett at Doerun Courier, Doerun, Georgia; J.B. Green, Hartsfield, Georgia; Mauldin and Saunders homes, Worth County, Georgia
Oakfield, Georgia; H.W. Garrett at Doerun Courier, Doerun, Georgia; J.B. Green, Hartsfield, Georgia; Mauldin and Saunders homes, Worth County, Georgia
Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin), 1940- (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Doerun between 1992 and 2020, burning about 992 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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 burning99
Arson/incendiarism23
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colquitt County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Doerun in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDoerun$10,000A tree fell on a house in Doerun.
March 2011Tornado (EF0)Doerun$4,000A brief tornado touchdown occurred in northwest Colquitt county just north of Doerun near Georgia Highway 133. Three individuals observed the tornado touching down in a field and remaining on the ground for around one-half mile. The tornado knocked over a few trees and power lines and did minor damage to one barn before lifting. Maximum winds were estimated around 70 mph. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindDoerun$3,000The Colquitt County Sheriff reported some downed trees and power lines.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindDoerun-A spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 mph in Doerun.
March 2005HailDoerun-Penny size hail reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter.
April 2004HailDoerun-Quarter size hail reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter.
May 1999HailDoerun-Golfball size hail reported by Colquitt County EMA.
March 2024HailDoerun-no account filed
May 2016HailDoerun-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Colquitt 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
Minnesota0.7 miles9
Ticknor1.7 miles9
Terrace (historical)4.6 miles9
Sigsbee4.8 miles10
New Elm5.5 miles10
Schley7.5 miles9
Hartsfield7.7 miles8
Marble (historical)8.3 miles9

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 DoerunAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2899135The 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 313522. 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.