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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.

Edison within Calhoun County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Edison 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,531
20201,230-301 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

218 since 1992

Regional 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 burning155
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CALHOUN-003
8 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019CALHOUN001
8 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-CALHOUN-001
2 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

10 since 2006

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2006LightningEdison$75,000Lightning struck an unoccupied home and destroyed it. Reported by the Citizen News-Edison.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindEdison$3,000Sporadic power outages occurred from just east of Edison to near Dickey as gusty winds from a line of storms moved through the area.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindEdison$2,000The City of Edison Facebook page reported a tree down on a power line on Manry Street.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindEdison$1,500A few trees were reported down along with dime sized hail. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindEdison$1,500Trees were blown down in Edison. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindEdison-Multiple trees were down near Edison.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindEdison-Two trees were blown down at Bluffton Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEdison-Several trees were blown down.
January 2017HailEdison-Quarter size hail was reported in Edison.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindEdison-Trees were reported down in Edison.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Parksville3.6 miles7
Turman3.9 miles7
Dickey4.1 miles7
Moye4.2 miles7
Morgan7.5 miles7
Folks (historical)8.2 miles7
Arlington8.2 miles8
Commissary Hill8.4 miles8

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 EdisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2700555The 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.