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Du Pont, Georgia

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Homerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31630. The Survey maps it on the Du Pont quadrangle. 134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 184 feet above sea level.

Du Pont within Clinch County

Population over time

2 figures

Du Pont grew from 120 to 134 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
2010120
2020134+14 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Du Pont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,438 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 24 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 burning71
Natural36
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4

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
7 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CLINCH-014
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CLINCH-022
22 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CLINCH013
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CLINCH-018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinch 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
Cutting4.0 miles8
Eightmile Still5.5 miles8
Gillicon5.7 miles8
Homerville7.4 miles9
Fivemile Still7.7 miles8
Sirmans8.2 miles8
Paletree8.6 miles9
Withers9.4 miles6

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 Du PontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2615495The 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 355562. 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.