Fargo, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Fargo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31631. It stands on Cypress Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fargo quadrangle. 250 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Fargo within Clinch County

Population over time

2 figures

Fargo fell from 321 to 250 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	321
2020	250	-71 (-22%)

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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Fargo between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,319 acres in total. 36 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
Natural	36
Debris and open burning	28
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
27 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-ECHOLS-014
26 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Natural	1.5 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	INDIAN MOUND FIRE
12 September 2016	Natural	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CLINCH-016
30 August 2014	Natural	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-ECHOLS-003
29 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinch County

Storms near this place

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fargo in 25 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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
January 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	$5,000	Two trees down on power lines near the intersection of highway 441 and highway 94.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	$3,000	A resident measured a wind gust to 70 mph off of the Fargo Highway. He had widespread straight line wind damage with several trees uprooted across his property. The report was relayed by the Suwanee River Cafe. The cost of damage was estimated.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	$2,500	Large trees were blown down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
October 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	$2,000	Large trees were blown down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	$2,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	$1,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	$1,000	Large trees were blown down along Highway 94.
April 2022	Heavy Rain	Fargo	-	A mesonet site FGOG1 in Fargo measured 3.70 inches of rainfall since midnight.
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	-	The tin roof of a local restaurant was blown off. Time of damage was based on radar.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	-	Trees and power lines were blown down along Alfred Griffis Road and MLK Drive in Fargo.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	-	A tree was blown down near Church Street and Highway 94. A power outage was reported in Fargo. The time was based on radar.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	-	An awning was tipped over at a gas station and a railroad track gate was snapped in Fargo. Large tree limbs were also down across Fargo.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	-	Trees were blown down about a mile southeast of Fargo near the intersection of Highway 441 and Highway 94. The time of the event was based on radar imagery.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	-	Multiple trees were blown down on power lines from Fargo to 4 miles north of Fargo along Highway 441. The time of damage was based on radar.
July 2007	Hail	Fargo	-	A spotter reported penny size hail in an isolated area of Highway 177, about 8 miles Northeast of Fargo.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	-	The public reported trees were blown down in Fargo and one fell through a roof. Several minutes later a spotter reported that the storm blew down trees about eight miles south of Argyle.
May 2007	Funnel Cloud	Fargo	-	A spotter reported a funnel cloud 2 miles north of Fargo along Highway 441. Two minutes prior to this spotter report, the county Emergency Manager reported seeing a wall cloud from the cell at approximately the same location.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	-	A spotter traveling south on Highway 441 about 1 mile north of Fargo estimated a severe thunderstorm wind gust to 60 mph. The gust blew him off of the road into a ditch. No damage nor injuries were reported.
May 2007	Hail	Fargo	-	A spotter reported penny size about 1 mile north of Fargo while traveling south on Highway 441.
June 2009	Hail	Fargo	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Fargo	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Fargo	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Fargo	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Edith	0.8 miles	7
Vickers Crossing	3.9 miles	7
Council	5.5 miles	11
Colon	5.9 miles	7
Williamsburg	7.5 miles	7
Ernest	8.3 miles	8
Magnolia	16.7 miles	7
Jamestown	17.0 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 Fargo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2384205	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 314079. 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.