Fort Valley, Georgia
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fort Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31030. The Survey maps it on the Fort Valley West quadrangle. 8,780 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 518 feet above sea level.
On record in Fort Valley
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 7 records
James A. Everett Houselisted 1992
Peach County Courthouselisted 1980
Strother's Farmlisted 1980- Collis Potter Huntington Halllisted 2000
- Everett Square Historic Districtlisted 1994
- Fort Valley Downtown and Railroad Historic Districtlisted 2010
- Henry Alexander Hunt High School Gymnasiumlisted 2021
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Vinson House, Woolfolk Road, North of U.S. 341/State Route 7, Fort Valleyfederal building survey, 11 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresFort Valley fell from 9,815 to 8,780 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 | 9,815 | |
| 2020 | 8,780 | -1,035 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1956 USGS Fort Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Fort Valley West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
336 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Fort Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 657 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 42 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 | 183 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 42 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 32 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
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 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2003 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Valley in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 1997: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Valley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Valley | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees along Georgia Highway 49 and Vinson Road. Water was also at least two feet deep in some areas. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Valley | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fort Valley | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and tree limbs down within the city limits. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Fort Valley | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peach Valley | 0.6 miles | 11 | |
| Indian Oaks | 0.6 miles | 11 | |
| Valley Pines | 0.6 miles | 11 | |
| State College | 1.2 miles | 11 | |
| Willow Lake | 1.9 miles | 11 | |
| Ponderosa Lake | 2.2 miles | 11 | |
| Hartley | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| Washington Square | 2.4 miles | 11 |
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 Fort Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q260197 | 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 355881. 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.






