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Flovilla, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Flovilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30216. It stands on Aboothlacoosta Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle. 643 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Flovilla within Butts County

Population over time

2 figures

Flovilla fell from 653 to 643 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
2010653
2020643-10 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Flovilla between 1992 and 2020, burning about 892 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 13 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 burning129
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking16
Arson/incendiarism13
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony8

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
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minor5.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance21 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butts County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Flovilla: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar. 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
Westbrooks ProspectMica, FeldsparProspect

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flovilla in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindFlovilla$15,000The Butts County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down around the city of Flovilla. One tree fell onto a vehicle.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFlovilla$7,000Several trees were knocked down, one falling on a car.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindFlovilla$6,000The public reported several trees blown down in the Flovilla community.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindFlovilla$1,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and power lines.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindFlovilla-Several trees reported down in Flovilla, roughly along Hwy 87 and near Lake Flovilla Park.
April 2019HailFlovilla-The Flovilla Fire Department reported quarter size hail at the Flovilla fire station.
May 2008HailFlovilla-The Butts county 911 Center reported penny-sized hail in the Flovilla area.
July 2008HailFlovilla-The Butts County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail.
October 1997HailFlovilla-Butts county sheriff's office reported golfball size hail.

Every storm recorded in Butts 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
Indian Springs1.4 miles14
Sandy1.7 miles14
Iron Springs Crossroads2.4 miles12
Bibb (historical)2.5 miles12
Cork3.2 miles14
Pepperton3.7 miles12
Jackson4.6 miles12
Stark5.5 miles12

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 FlovillaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3260948The 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 355853. 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.