Edison, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Edison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39846. The Survey maps it on the Edison quadrangle. 1,230 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 292 feet above sea level.
On record in Edison
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 1 record
Edison Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresEdison fell from 1,531 to 1,230 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,531 | |
| 2020 | 1,230 | -301 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Edison quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
218 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Edison between 1992 and 2020, burning about 566 acres in total. 3 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 burning | 155 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-CALHOUN-003 |
| 8 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019CALHOUN001 |
| 8 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-CALHOUN-001 |
| 2 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edison in 10 storm reports between 2006 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2006 | Lightning | Edison | $75,000 | Lightning struck an unoccupied home and destroyed it. Reported by the Citizen News-Edison. |
| December 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edison | $3,000 | Sporadic power outages occurred from just east of Edison to near Dickey as gusty winds from a line of storms moved through the area. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edison | $2,000 | The City of Edison Facebook page reported a tree down on a power line on Manry Street. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edison | $1,500 | A few trees were reported down along with dime sized hail. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edison | $1,500 | Trees were blown down in Edison. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edison | - | Multiple trees were down near Edison. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edison | - | Two trees were blown down at Bluffton Road. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edison | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| January 2017 | Hail | Edison | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Edison. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edison | - | Trees were reported down in Edison. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parksville | 3.6 miles | 7 | |
| Turman | 3.9 miles | 7 | |
| Dickey | 4.1 miles | 7 | |
| Moye | 4.2 miles | 7 | |
| Morgan | 7.5 miles | 7 | |
| Folks (historical) | 8.2 miles | 7 | |
| Arlington | 8.2 miles | 8 | |
| Commissary Hill | 8.4 miles | 8 |
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 Edison | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2700555 | 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 355643. 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.




