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East Griffin, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Griffin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30223. It lies near Barrow Hill. The Survey maps it on the Orchard Hill quadrangle. 1,561 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

East Griffin within Spalding County

Population over time

3 figures

East Griffin fell from 1,635 to 1,561 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
20001,635
20101,451-184 (-11%)
20201,561+110 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

411 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 411 fires within 5 miles of East Griffin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 694 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 64 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 burning246
Arson/incendiarism64
Misuse of fire by a minor31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking8
Natural8

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
9 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SPALDING003
30 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2013Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-SPALDING-002
28 September 2001Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-SPALDING-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spalding County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of East Griffin: 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Granite, Mica. 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
Melton ProspectsMicaProspect
The Turner QuarryGranitePast Producer
Unnamed Beryl DepositGemstoneOccurrence
Walker PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Spalding County

Storms near this place

10 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Griffin in 10 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindEast Griffin$25,000The Spalding County 911 Center reported that two trees were down on the east side of Griffin. One tree fell on a home causing damage to the structure. The other tree fell on a power line.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Griffin$5,000Multiple trees down on roadways and on powerlines in SE Griffin.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Griffin$2,000The Spalding County Emergency Manager reported power lines blown down in the 100 block of High Falls Road.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindEast Griffin$1,500The Spalding County 911 Center reported several trees down in the Parrish Street/Brook Circle/Spalding Street area on the east side of Griffin.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Griffin$1,000Em reports tree down along hamilton blvd and arthur k bolton pkwy.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Griffin$1,000Tree down along 4th street, east side of Griffin.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Griffin$1,000A tree was downed in the 1800 block of High Falls Road.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Griffin$1,000Tree down on 900 block of North Second Street in Griffin.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindEast Griffin$500The Spalding County 911 Center reported that a large tree and a couple of wires were blown down east of Griffin.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEast Griffin-Report of a tree and powerlines down on a house on 6th street.

Every storm recorded in Spalding 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
Griffin1.9 miles9
Experiment3.2 miles9
Walker Mill3.6 miles10
Highland Mills3.7 miles9
Orchard Hill4.1 miles11
Pleasant Grove4.2 miles10
Towalaga5.0 miles10
Esmond5.7 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 East GriffinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2372698The 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 331620. 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.