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.
Population over time
2 figuresFlovilla 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 653 | |
| 2020 | 643 | -10 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
242 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 129 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Smoking | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 5.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 21 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westbrooks Prospect | Mica, Feldspar | Prospect |
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flovilla | $15,000 | The Butts County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down around the city of Flovilla. One tree fell onto a vehicle. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flovilla | $7,000 | Several trees were knocked down, one falling on a car. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flovilla | $6,000 | The public reported several trees blown down in the Flovilla community. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flovilla | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and power lines. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flovilla | - | Several trees reported down in Flovilla, roughly along Hwy 87 and near Lake Flovilla Park. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Flovilla | - | The Flovilla Fire Department reported quarter size hail at the Flovilla fire station. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Flovilla | - | The Butts county 911 Center reported penny-sized hail in the Flovilla area. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Flovilla | - | The Butts County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail. |
| October 1997 | Hail | Flovilla | - | Butts county sheriff's office reported golfball size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Springs | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Sandy | 1.7 miles | 14 | |
| Iron Springs Crossroads | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Bibb (historical) | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Cork | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Pepperton | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Jackson | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Stark | 5.5 miles | 12 |
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 Flovilla | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3260948 | 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 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.






