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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.

Fort Valley within Peach County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Fort 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.

YearPeople Change
20109,815
20208,780-1,035 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

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.

Vinson House, Woolfolk Road, North of U.S. 341/State Route 7, Fort Valley, Peach County, GA
Vinson House, Woolfolk Road, North of U.S. 341/State Route 7, Fort Valley, Peach County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

336 since 1992

Regional 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 burning183
Arson/incendiarism42
Equipment and vehicle use32
Misuse of fire by a minor26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural16
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking4

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 1998Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1997Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peach County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1997Thunderstorm WindFort Valley$5,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindFort Valley$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees along Georgia Highway 49 and Vinson Road. Water was also at least two feet deep in some areas.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindFort Valley$1,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindFort Valley-Thunderstorm winds knocked down numerous trees and tree limbs down within the city limits.
April 1997HailFort Valley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Peach 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
Peach Valley0.6 miles11
Indian Oaks0.6 miles11
Valley Pines0.6 miles11
State College1.2 miles11
Willow Lake1.9 miles11
Ponderosa Lake2.2 miles11
Hartley2.3 miles11
Washington Square2.4 miles11

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 ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q260197The 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.